Terna Gyuse is a contributing editor for Mongabay, focusing on environmental and conservation issues in Africa. With a passion for investigative journalism, Terna's articles shed light on the challenges faced by local communities, the impact of extractive industries, and the importance of biodiversity conservation in the region.
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A translocation of 26 elephants from Okonjati Game Reserve in Namibia to Cuatir Conservation Area in southeastern Angola has just been completed.
By: Spoorthy Raman, Terna Gyuse
It was mid-2008. Mwezi “Badru” Mugerwa was almost done with his bachelor’s degree in forestry, an academic field that had trained him to view forests as a resource for extraction. However, as he inched closer to graduation, the idea of cutting down trees didn’t sit well with him, and he was looking for ways to […]
By: Awudu Salami
In northern Ghana, communities are facing food insecurity and declining livelihoods due to erratic weather, degraded soils and loss of forests. Among those working on ways to unpick this complicated knot of challenges in the Northern Savannah Zone is an NGO called the Regional Advisory Information and Network Systems, or RAINS.
By: Ruth Kamnitzer
The tiny black-footed cat (Felis nigripes) is one of Africa's rarest cats, only found in South Africa, Namibia and Botswana, with a total population size of fewer than 10,000 individuals.
LUBUMBASHI, Democratic Republic of Congo — An environmental activist in the Democratic Republic of Congo faces five years in prison over allegations that he threatened a logger allegedly engaged in illegal deforestation in the country’s eastern Maniema province. In a summons issued by the bailiff of the high court in Kasongo, an important commercial town […]
NAIROBI — The water supply for Nairobi's five million people — and four million others besides — depends on the Tana river, which flows for 1,000 km from the Aberdare mountains to the Indian Ocean. The decades-long spread of agriculture in the upper reaches of the Tana's catchment area has stripped hillsides of trees, prompting erosion that's compromised both the farmland and the quality of the water that Kenya's capital depends on. Now rainstorms are rapidly washing soil into the river, decreasing the farmland's productivity and clogging water and power generation infrastructure with silt.
By: Terna Gyuse, Didier Makal
Some 200,000 people work in artisanal copper and cobalt mining the Democratic Republic of Congo’s Katanga region. Most of them scrape a livelihood from the soil with manual tools, often under hazardous conditions, despite government promises to improve their welfare. When state-owned mining company Gécamines was broken up into several private companies in 2002, the […]
By: Naomi Achieng
An NGO working with Maasai pastoralists in northern Tanzania says its efforts to restore tree cover in the semiarid region and offer alternative forms of livelihood in the face of climate change impacts are bearing fruit.
A local community has taken over protecting and managing patches of small evergreen forests, known as mushitu forests, that have recently been subject to illegal logging.
By: Ashoka Mukpo
Cattle and conservation don't typically mix. For centuries, East African pastoralists like the Maasai trudged across the region's savannas with their herds, passing by elephants and lions in their search for life-giving grasses. But times have changed. Today, landscapes that were once a no-man's-land are a bordered maze of ranches, farms and national parks. Cattle are especially unwelcome in the latter.
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