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Logging and road building are expanding dramatically in the Congo Basin

Jun 24, 2019 | Forest, Habitat News

Logging roads are expanding dramatically in the Congo Basin, leading to catastrophic collapses in animal populations living in the world's second-largest rainforest, according to research co-led by a scientist at James Cook University in Australia. Just as worrying is...

Connecting people and the natural world through visual arts: An interview with Pooja Gupta

Jun 3, 2019 | In Focus, Interviews

An interview with artist Pooja GuptaThis article was originally published by artsavingwildlife.com With a passion that is inextricably linked to the natural world, conservation artist Pooja Gupta works with the language of video, illustration, graphics, animation and...

Local and international organisations call on Ugandan and DRC presidents to protect sensitive ecosystems in new oil licensing round

May 22, 2019 | Habitat News, In Focus, Oil, Virunga

Kampala and Goma - Nearly 50 civil society organizations (CSOs) from Uganda, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and their partners have written to the presidents of Uganda and the DRC calling on them to avoid sensitive ecosystems in the planned and ongoing oil...

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“I am greatly encouraged by the work of the African Conservation Foundation for they are motivated by the idea that nature and our environment are an essential gift that we need to protect for future generations. After all, what would life be without a clean, healthy and sustainable environment?”.

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The Cross River Gorilla, with fewer than 300 individuals left in the wild, is the most vulnerable of the gorilla subspecies. It is listed by the IUCN as Critically Endangered.