Africa needs its forests for sustainable development, poverty reduction, food security, and to make the continent more ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

The Congo Basin spans 3.4 million square kilometres, making it almost six times the size of the UK, which measures around 242,000 square kilometres. It is also Africa’s biggest rainforest and ...

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

and the safeguarding of the rainforest, the largest in Africa. “When I speak of removing the ban, people say, ‘It’s over, Congo will award concessions to whoever.’ It’s not true ...

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.

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 ...