Gabonese researcher Christy Achtone Nkollo was on a lake in Gabon trying to figure out what to do with her career when she found out that African manatees live there – now she helps study and conserve ...

Today we look at two new studies of African wildlife using bioacoustics and take a listen to some of the recordings informing that research. Bioacoustics combines biology and acoustics. In other words ...

Founder’s Briefs: An occasional series where Mongabay’s founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives and story summaries. Few creatures better embody the notion of peaceful coexistence ...

WWF-West African Marine Ecoregion Programme today signed a new intergovernmental agreement to conserve the West African Manatee and Small Whales in Western Africa and Macaronesia. The conservation ...

Ever since his first hard-won sightings of African manatees, award-winning marine biologist Aristide Takoukam Kamla has been devoted to protecting the little known and at risk aquatic mammals. The ...