James Cook University-led research has revealed secondary roads branching from major highways in tropical forests linked to ...

Analysis of satellite imagery of the Brazilian Amazon, the Congo Basin and New Guinea helps to show that ‘secondary’ roads ...

Congo-Brazzaville and Madagascar are combining efforts to protect their primary forests, which support rich ecosystems and ...

Indigenous and local community-centered solutions to deforestation are among the most effective and enduring strategies for mitigating climate change. Social innovators in these communities pioneered ...

The Congo Basin's forests are among the largest in the world and crucial to holding the line on climate change - but also are fast disappearing. What can be done to protect them?

It is part of the Congo Basin and it’s home to many protected ... We decided to show these images of deforestation to Justin Chekoua, a Cameroonian scientist and environmental activist.

Instead, the increase in sightings is probably due to continued deforestation and increased ... dinosaur-like creature living in the Congo River Basin. The creature first came to the attention ...

But we're losing forests at an alarming rate. Two-thirds of global forest cover loss is occuring mainly in the tropics and sub-tropics, where vast clusters of deforestation hotspots are destroying the ...

While Congo-Brazzaville has maintained a low deforestation rate compared to neighbouring countries in the Congo Basin, its forests are increasingly under pressure from logging, agriculture and ...