by ACF | Jul 20, 2019 | Elephants, Forest, Habitat News
Forest elephant extinction would exacerbate climate change. That’s according to a new study in Nature Geoscience which links feeding by elephants with an increase in the amount of carbon that forests are able to store. The bad news is that African forest elephants –... 
by ACF | Jul 12, 2019 | Great Apes, Wildlife News
Gorillas have more complex social structures than previously thought, from lifetime bonds forged between distant relations, to “social tiers” with striking parallels to traditional human societies, according to a new study. The findings suggest that the... 
by ACF | 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... 
by ACF | Jun 3, 2019 | In Focus, Interviews
An interview with artist Pooja Gupta This 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... 
by ACF | 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... 
by ACF | Mar 17, 2019 | Habitat News, Wildlife News
A team of Princeton ecologists took advantage of a rare opportunity to study what happens to an ecosystem when large carnivores are wiped out. “Large carnivores play a critical, and disproportionate, role in their ecosystems, and their populations are declining...