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 ...

Deforestation stayed at a near-record ... Reserve covers 14,000 square kilometers (5,405 square miles) of Congo Basin rainforest. It protects an astounding array of globally significant wildlife ...

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.

Congo rainforest is the second largest ... blames politics for the sorry state of the rainforest. "Deforestation is going on and the equatorial forest has been allocated to private investors ...

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

For the best experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings. Deaths, mass rapes, kidnappings for ransom, displacements, money laundering and costly ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ... due to continued deforestation and ...