It's home to the only mountain gorillas left on the planet. But parts of this precious land are now up for auction. Congo is selling 30 oil and gas drilling blocks across the Congo Basin ...

Making sense of the mayhem is not easy. Over 100 armed groups and several national armies are vying for supremacy across a region of lakes, mountains and rainforests slightly bigger than Florida.

Congo rainforest basin is a carbon sink; ... Two of the other oil blocks overlap with Virunga National Park, a sanctuary for endangered mountain gorillas on the borders with Rwanda and Uganda.

But this unique habitat, which boasts a dazzling array of wildlife from forest elephants to mountain gorillas, is in trouble. Last year, forest loss in the Congo basin jumped by 30,000 hectares, a ...

The DRC is also full of amazing wildlife and nature, including the Congo Basin, the world's second largest rainforest. It's home to mountain gorillas, elephants, and many animals and birds that ...

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 ...

Many may blend with adjoining mangrove forests, moist forests, mountain forests, ... Another 20% of the world's remaining rainforest exists in Indonesia and the Congo Basin, ...

Therefore, deforestation of the Congo rainforest, the second largest in the world, is pushing many animal species to extinction. Data shows that mountain gorillas, bush elephants and okapi that ...

Democratic Republic of Congo’s oil ministry said Tuesday that companies bidding for 30 oil and gas permits this week will need to commit to environmental and social protection plans as criticism ...

The Congo Rainforest is second only to the Amazon in terms of its importance as a carbon sink. It contains the largest tropical peatlands in the world. These areas are climate superheroes, storing ...

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