Ebo Forest News Today

A San Diego Zoo conservationist was honored by Prince William for his work to preserve the animals and habitat of Cameroon's Ebo Forest.

Mongabay seeks to raise interest in and appreciation of wild lands and wildlife, while examining the impact of emerging trends in climate, technology, economics,and finance on conservation and development.

What do Taylor Swift, Jackie Chan, Adolf Hitler and several Nobel Peace laureates all have in common? Over the past 100 years, they’ve all had plants, animals, insects or other new-to-science species named in their honor. The practice of using eponyms, or scientific names based on real or fictional people, has been in place since […]

After many years of tergiversation, Cameroon has finally made up its mind about the management of the Ebo forest: "The government has

Cameroon's Minister of Forests and Wildlife has just granted an annual logging certificate to the company Sextransbois, which already holds a forest concession under a provisional agreement. But for civil society, the process of granting this certificate, which concerns an area of the Ebo forest massif straddling the Central and Coastal regions, was not carried out in accordance with the forestry legislation and regulations in force in Cameroon. This decision threatens the rights of the Ban...

YAOUNDÉ — It’s already been three years since the nearly 4,000 inhabitants of Apouh, a village in eastern Cameroon, have been locked in an intractable conflict with Socapalm, a local subsidiary of Belgian agriculture giant Socfin which owns plantations in a dozen African countries. The crux of the problem revolves around the population’s land claims. […]

A resplendent rainbow fish, a frog that looks like chocolate, a Thai tarantula,  an anemone that rides on a back of a hermit crab, and the world’s largest waterlily are among the new species named by science in 2022. In this well-trodden world, finding a new species is a glimpse of the uncharted riches of […]

The list features a record-breaking giant waterlily in the wetlands of Bolivia to a waterfall-dwelling plant deemed extinct before it was named.

Scientists at Royal Botanic Gardens say naming new species is part of global effort to protect Earth’s biodiversity

This week on Eco Africa we see why sand is a valuable resource that needs to be used more wisely, we meet the locals in Cameroon's Ebo Forest who are protecting rare primates and we learn how to make pencils from old newspapers.