by Jessica Arriens | Aug 9, 2018
Laura Azandi, a PhD student at Cameroon’s University of Yaounde I, recently spent time at CBI’s Bouamir Research Station studying a particular species of orchid, Cyrtorchis letouzeyi. Watch the video to learn more about the research. View on Youtube Africa is home to...
by Jessica Arriens | May 25, 2018
CBI affiliate Luke L. Powell, director of the conservation NGO Biodiversity Initiative and a research fellow at Durham University in the United Kingdom, recently had his cacao research — which uses metabarcoding to understand food webs on cacao plantations...
by Jessica Arriens | Apr 23, 2018
Taylor Guitars has launched a new multimedia storytelling website focused on ebony, Cameroon and CBI’s Sustainable Ebony Project. The website includes video interviews with CBI Co-Director Tom Smith, Center for Tropical Research (CTR) Africa Director Kevin Njabo...
by Jessica Arriens | Apr 9, 2018
Nancy J. Jacobs, a professor of History at Brown University, shares her experience visiting a CBI field station. Jacobs is a historian of South Africa, of colonial Africa, of the environment, of animals, and of knowledge about the environment and animals. Her research...
by Jessica Arriens | Feb 19, 2018
The World Bank recently published a feature story on CBI and Taylor Guitar’s Sustainable Ebony project. Read an excerpt below, or read the entire story on World Bank’s website. Or watch a Connect4Climate interview with Taylor Guitar’s Director of...
by Jessica Arriens | Jan 31, 2018
The article below was published in the Winter 2018, Volume 90 issue of Wood&Steel, the in-house magazine of Taylor Guitars. Read the full issue online here. A Public-Private Partnership in Cameroon Previous issues of Wood&Steel have featured stories about our...
by Jessica Arriens | Jan 17, 2018
Giant pangolins are poorly understood creatures. The species (Smutsia gigantea) is largely nocturnal, and lives in underground burrows in the lowland forests and savanna of tropical Africa. Their life span, range and habitat use are basically a mystery, and yet the...
by Jessica Arriens | Jan 15, 2018
From SciDev.net: Climate change is reducing plantain yields and school attendance rates in Cameroon from 1991 to 2011, says a study. According to researchers, the Central African region, where Cameroon is located, lacks studies on climate change social...
by Jessica Arriens | Dec 11, 2017
Cassava is one of the main crops produced by communities around national parks for food and income in southwest Cameroon. The crop is largely cultivated using traditional methods, often resulting in low yields and soil degradation. Slash-and-burn agriculture is also a...
by Jessica Arriens | Dec 7, 2017
New research from the Congo Basin Institute has revealed links between climate change, plantain productivity and education levels in rural households in central Africa. The study charts a decline in yields of plantain – an important crop throughout west and central...
by Jessica Arriens | Oct 5, 2017
That chocolate you’re eating? There’s a good chance it came, in part, from Africa. The continent produces more than 70 percent of the world’s cocoa supply, mostly from small-scale, shade-grown farms in west and central Africa. Most cocoa trees need some shade to...
by Jessica Arriens | Aug 24, 2017
Climate change will likely affect species differently depending on many factors. Organisms are adapted to the habitats in which they live; how these organisms are adapted to variation in their environment may determine how sensitive they are to climate change. Timothy...
by Jessica Arriens | Aug 2, 2017
Margery Nicolson doesn’t walk so well anymore. She has spent a lifetime traveling and trekking; decades of backpacking, rock-climbing, and the slow march of time have all taken their toll. She’s had two hip replacements, plus there’s the battered knee (after an...
