Bwindi Impenetrable Forest in Uganda is famous for its gorilla trekking adventures. This UNESCO World Heritage site is home ...

But Africa has the highest rate of forest loss in the world. About 3.9 million hectares of African forest – the size of about ...

“Tropical rainforests don’t give up their secrets ... Nouabalé-Ndoki National Park is in the northern Republic of the Congo, ...

The Congo Basin encompasses the world’s second largest rainforest, behind the Amazon, spanning about 500 million acres across Central Africa. Yet while more than a thousand flux towers have been ...

For centuries, at least, the indigenous Bantu peoples of Central, East, and Southern Africa have traded tales of a lumbering creature living in the Congo River Basin. The alleged dinosaur-like ...

Part of the larger Congo Basin, the 90-year-old Odzala ... Considered “the lungs of Africa,” this rainforest is the largest carbon sink in the world, absorbing more carbon than the Amazon.

These strange, sudden canopy gaps, called bais, are located only in the rainforests of the Congo Basin of west-central Africa. Some stretching the length of 40 football fields, and some only a few ...

The Democratic Republic of Congo is covered in rainforest and savanna ... the principal scientist for the South African organization Hankuzi Expeditions, spends his morning splashing around ...

High-definition trail cameras at a park in the Republic of the Congo reveal elusive rainforest animals. A photo shows two African forest elephants. Photo from Will Burrard-Lucas and Wildlife ...