For centuries, locals have told stories of mokele-mbembe, a legendary creature said to lurk in the Congo Basin. But as ...

For centuries, at least, the indigenous Bantu peoples of Central, East, and Southern Africa have traded tales of a lumbering ...

But the park, which is part of the 60 per cent Congo basin rainforest found in DRC and endowed with century-old indigenous trees among other biodiversity, is under attack, courtesy of illegal ...

See All Key Ideas Cacao cultivation is a major threat to the Congo Basin rainforest, with new research showing just where expanding cultivation could imperil the region’s rich wildlife.

Interview - CIVICUS discusses activism against oil auctions in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) with François Kamate, founder and coordinator of the young environmental volunteer movement ...

Conservation groups have made progress setting up complaints systems in protected areas in the Congo Basin, but there’s still a ways to go, the Rainforest Foundation UK says in a report released ...

It’s part of the Congo Basin rainforest — the world’s second-biggest — and a vital carbon sink that helps mitigate climate change. It also has vast mineral wealth such as gold and diamonds.

The Congo Basin has a total area of about 1.5 million ... The river and its tributaries flow through the Congo rainforest, the second largest rainforest area in the world, after the Amazon ...

undermining efforts to protect the world’s second largest rainforest, a campaign group said on Wednesday (3 June). The Democratic Republic of Congo's biggest logging companies are systematically ...

A modelling study suggests they originated in a region that covers what is now the Amazon rainforest, Congo basin and Sahara desert. “When you consider the gaps in the fossil record and the ...