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Let the [RE]CHARGE journey begin: Hitting the road to raise sustainability awareness

Let the [RE]CHARGE journey begin: Hitting the road to raise sustainability awareness

by ACF | Oct 7, 2019 | ACF News, Habitat News

7 October 2019, Zellik – Panasonic’s sustainable rechargeable battery brand, eneloop, has partnered with premium vehicle manufacturer, Jaguar, in a campaign to raise funds for non-governmental organisations (NGOs) engaged in environmental and sustainability projects....
Debunking myths about the impact of elephants on large trees

Debunking myths about the impact of elephants on large trees

by ACF | Aug 31, 2019 | Elephants, Forest

Pangolins, a group of unique African and Asian scaly mammals, are considered to be one of the most heavily trafficked wild mammals in the world. They are hunted and traded for their meat, scales, and other body parts, and used as traditional medicines in parts of...
Forest elephants are our allies in the fight against climate change, finds research

Forest elephants are our allies in the fight against climate change, finds research

by ACF | Jul 20, 2019 | Conservation Solutions, 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 –...
Logging and road building are expanding dramatically in the Congo Basin

Logging and road building are expanding dramatically in the Congo Basin

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

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

by ACF | May 22, 2019 | Conservation Threats, Habitat News, 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...
Ecology of fear: Cascading impacts of local extinction of large-carnivores in an African savanna ecosystem

Ecology of fear: Cascading impacts of local extinction of large-carnivores in an African savanna ecosystem

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...
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