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

Congo has launched a plan for the world's largest protected area - but Indigenous and local people say they haven't been ...

Illegal mining inside the Okapi Wildlife Reserve in northeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) continues to spread, satellite data show, driving environmental devastation. Deforestation ...

Recent data tell us that tropical Africa has lost about 22 per cent of its forested a.   rea since 1900, which is comparable to the losses in the Amazon.

Deep in the heart of a lush green forest, an excavator is hard at work, turning over the earth in search of gold. The ...

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 ...

The Republic of Congo set up a REDD+ program in the Sangha and Likouala regions, aiming to reduce deforestation and store carbon from 2020 through to 2024. However, in the Sangha region alone, ...

Deforestation and hunting killed nearly 150,000 ... those early farmers had covered large parts of Gabon and northern Congo in palm groves. “Central Africa,” White says, “probably looked ...

Deforestation is a major man-made source of ... like the Democratic Republic of Congo. Forests naturally act as a storage unit, or "sink," for carbon emissions into the atmosphere, absorbing ...