news.mongabay.com — Permits for controversial oil exploration in Virunga National Park have been released after request by NGO Global Witness. Oil company, SOCO International, has confirmed it has received two permits to undertake preliminary exploration, including seismic tests, in the UNESCO World Heritage Site....

treehugger.com — Thanks to an unprecedented alliance between five key nations to create the world's largest conservation area, wildlife in Africa will now be able to get around much more freely - and safely....

dailymail.co.uk — Vets in South Africa operated on 11-month-old Roccy after the young animal developed cataracts following a brutal attack last year....

businessdailyafrica.com — Nineteenth-century European explorers called Africa the “Dark Continent,” because to them it was vast and largely unknown.

Today, the continent may still be dark, but for a very different reason: it is chronically short of electricity....

bbc.co.uk — One of the world's tiniest lizards has been discovered by keen-eyed researchers in Madagascar....

sciencedaily.com — University of Missouri researcher has identified a new species of prehistoric crocodile. The extinct creature, nicknamed "Shieldcroc" due to a thick-skinned shield on its head, is an ancestor of today's crocodiles....

businessdailyafrica.com — Eleven years ago, as a Fulbright scholar, Nina Dudnik did a year-long research stint at the Africa Rice Centre in Côte d’Ivoire, where her colleagues meticulously rinsed out disposable items, such as pipette tips, so they could re-use them. Soon after, when she went to graduate school at Harvard University, United States, she saw that serviceable equipment and laboratory equip...