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When Charcoal and Firewood Consume Forests in the Great Lakes Region (Burundi, Rwanda, and Uganda)

The population pressure in Burundi, Rwanda and Uganda is putting a strain on the forests due to the...

Multiple Authors

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Mount Kei Forest Reserve and Cross-Border Criminals

The Mount Kei Forest Reserve is a former white rhinoceros sanctuary along the Uganda-South Sudan...

Richard Drasimaku
Congo Basin RJF Grantee

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PART OF: The Challenges of Safeguarding the Mayombe in the Face of Overexploitation

Mayombe Forest Under Growing Threat of Illegal Artisanal Sawing of Timber (French)

Jean Pierre Ndinga
Congo Basin RJF Grantee

June 24, 2022
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PART OF: Corn and Beans Destroy the Savannah Forests of Central DRC

Kalamba: When Beans and Corn Eat the Gallery Forests (French)

Didier Makal
Rainforest Investigations Fellow

June 24, 2022
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PART OF: Mount Kei Forest Reserve and Cross-Border Criminals

Saving MT Kei Forest From Cross Border Criminals

Richard Drasimaku
Congo Basin RJF Grantee

June 24, 2022
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PART OF: Charting Conflict and Corruption — Uganda and the DRC

The Bold Campaign to Defund the East African Crude Oil Pipeline

Sophie Neiman
Grantee

June 22, 2022
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PART OF: Peru: The Enablers of Destruction

RSPO: Over a Hundred Complaints Fail To Curb Palm Oil’s Impact on Rainforests

Multiple Authors

June 14, 2022
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PART OF: Cross-Border Conservation: TRIDOM Has Much To Show

Cross-border Conservation: Tridom (French)

Kimeng Hilton Ndukong
Congo Basin RJF Grantee

June 14, 2022
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PART OF: Congo Forests Under Pressure

Loggers Close In on One of the World’s Oldest Biosphere Reserves

Glòria Pallarès
Rainforest Investigations Fellow

June 13, 2022
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Nigeria Women Working To Revive Cloth Weaving, Support Families

These Nigerian women are doubling their efforts to ensure their products gain wide acceptance again.

Taiwo Adebulu
2026 Persephone Miel Fellow

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PART OF: Nigeria Women Working To Revive Cloth Weaving, Support Families

Nigerian Women Struggling To Keep Traditional Cloth Weaving From Extinction

Taiwo Adebulu
2026 Persephone Miel Fellow

June 10, 2022
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Pulitzer Center Update

Journalist Who Reveals Deeper Truths About Mozambique Insurgency Wins $12,000 Pulitzer Center Award

We are delighted to announce that freelance journalist Neha Wadekar has been selected as the winner...

Steve Sapienza
Pulitzer Center Staff

June 9, 2022