In my backyard, there is an old African sumac that has died back and regrown at least once before. I’m keeping the main trunk, though it is a highly invasive, nonnative tree, but I’m cutting back the ...

Baobabs aren't supposed to fall. They can live for up to 2,500 years. Famous for their resilience, these huge trees have stood tall across Africa, weathering droughts and winds that flatten everything ...

University of the Witwatersrand provides support as a hosting partner of The Conversation AFRICA. Baobabs aren’t supposed to fall. They can live for up to 2,500 years. Famous for their resilience, ...

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Sheltering an incredible diversity of flora and fauna, including western lowland gorillas and forest elephants, is a vast, ...

2023 Audacious Project grantee Wanjira Mathai is at the forefront of re-greening the planet. Through the forest restoration initiative Restore Local, she's working to help both Africa's people and its ...

President John Dramani Mahama has announced plans to process at least 60 per cent of Ghana's major tree crops locally each year to boost industrialisation, create jobs, and reduce dependence on raw ...

A long-standing debate about the evolutionary origin of the world's most widely cultivated "magic mushroom"—Psilocybe cubensis—may now have been settled by scientists from southern Africa and the ...

Baobabs aren’t supposed to fall. They can live for up to 2,500 years. Famous for their resilience, these huge trees have stood tall across Africa, weathering droughts and winds that flatten everything ...