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An image of the Okapi at the Bronx Zoo. Photo Courtesy: Julie Larsen/ Wildlife Conservation Society The world’s only living relative of the giraffe has received its strongest global protection yet. On November 28, 2025, […]

Ruth Apondi Omondi, founder of Smart Mama, working on her laptop during a consultation session, in her office in Nairobi, Kenya on November, 2025. Photo: Macharia Maina, bird story agency 4 December 2025 When Kenyan […]

As rising migration levels combine with chronic shortages and rising population levels to place further strain on health systems, African governments are responding with a coordinated, decade-long agenda to train, deploy, and retain health workers. […]

Sibongile Sonile Nthani, a fish farmer, holding a bag with fingerlings, at her fish farm in Kafue, Zambia, October, 20, 2025. Photo: Kathy Short, bird story agency More and more Zambians are finding their fortune […]

Protests during the COP30 Climate Conference in Belém, Brazil, November, 2025. Photo: Seth Onyango, bird story agency African nations lead in global soil-carbon capture as new report flags major omissions elsewhere. Seth Onyango, bird story […]

Sights during the COP30 Climate Conference in Belém, Brazil, November, 2025. Photo: Seth Onyango, bird story agency At the forum, African climate envoys rejected one-size-fits-all fixes that push the cost of climate adaptation to developing […]

Sights during the COP30 Climate Conference in Belém, Brazil, November, 2025. Photo: Seth Onyango, bird story agency Carbon markets in the Democratic Republic of Congo press forward with tangible payouts to forest communities. DRC’s REDD+ […]

Hilary Savi, a climate educator, posing for a picture, during the COP30 Climate Conference in Belém,Brazil, November, 2025. Photo: Seth Onyango, bird story agency With Africa facing some of the biggest climate risks on earth, […]