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

There is a “mismatch” between the importance of peatlands and their current level of protection, a new study warns.

Their maps show southern Cameroon, nearly all of Equatorial Guinea, northern Gabon, and the northeastern and eastern parts of the Democratic Republic of Congo have the most favorable conditions ...

Peatlands are important — the UN Environment Programme estimates as much as 600 billion tonnes of carbon are stored there, as decaying organic material gets trapped inside a water-rich environment.

What was once a lush forest sheltering endangered ... Despite claims that official maps are being followed, the ICCN (the body managing Congo's protected areas) refutes this, insisting that ...

Other star attractions include the Congo Gorilla Forest, the seasonal butterfly garden ... heed the advice of past visitors and grab a map use the zoo's interactive map on its website.

Conservation projects across the world are reeling from the Trump administration’s abrupt decision to shut down USAID and freeze foreign aid, as groups large and small scramble to fill sudden funding ...

In the Democratic Republic of Congo's Ituri province, an environmental catastrophe is unfolding at a rapid pace. The Okapi Wildlife Reserve, a UNESCO World Heritage site once home to some of Earth's ...

What is a continent? We think of it as a large body of land surrounded by the sea, aka, ocean. There are a few continent sized countries. Australia is the only continent that is also one country.

Burundi faces serious climate and environmental challenges. The biggest is the country's overdependence on the use of biomass (firewood). The second is outdated agricultural practices that have led to ...

Each year, multiyear droughts affected an additional 5 million hectares of land, physical geographer Liangzhi Chen of the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research in ...