As forest elephants plummet, ebony trees decline in Central Africa’s rainforests

Mongabay
Aug 29, 2025, 9:05 am202 pts
In 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 Baka people accompanied him on his field trips. As they sat around campfires and trekked through the…

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