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In the past three decades, poaching has decimated Africa’s now-critically endangered forest elephants, and their vital role as seed dispersers has been disrupted. A new study from Cameroon provides the first direct evidence that without forest elephants, there are fewer ebony saplings.

news.mongabay.comAs forest elephants plummet, ebony trees decline in Central Africa’s rainforestsIn 2017, when Vincent Deblauwe joined the Cameroon-based Congo Basin Institute (CBI) to study African ebony (Diospyros crassiflora) — economically valuable pitch-black, dense wood — the Indigenous…

31/8/25, 9:21 pm18 reposts19 likes

Michele

@michele67.bsky.social

31 Aug 2025

All we need to know is that when people get involved, it all goes to rat shit. For the supposedly most intelligent species on the planet, we don’t half fuck up everything

Ani

@aninewforest.bsky.social

1 Sept 2025

The irony is, it's the indigenous Pygmy who are doing most of the poaching.