For decades, the Congo Basin was largely invisible to climate science. Now, a new generation of Central African researchers ...

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 ...

Four mountain gorillas have been killed in the Democratic Republic of Congo's Virunga National Park. With only some 700 individuals remaining in the wild, the gorilla deaths represent a huge loss to a ...

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 ...

A ring of suspected moutain gorilla traffickers operating in Virunga National Park were busted by local wildlife officials as they tried to sell the body of a female mountain gorilla. The crime brings ...

The Congo rainforest in Africa is one of the world ... Not all of Africa is hot all the year around. High mountains such as Mount Kilimanjaro often have snow at their summit.

The river and its tributaries flow through the Congo rainforest, the second largest ... Its sources are in the highlands and mountains of the East African Rift, as well as Lake Tanganyika and ...

Tropical rainforests don’t give up their secrets easily. ... That’s why it’s so rewarding to see these incredible images.” ...