The World Heritage Committee, at its 47th session currently taking place in Paris, France, has decided to remove the ...

Bark cloths were historically beaten from fibrous vines and used as canvases for Mbuti women of the Ituri Forest to paint various designs referencing the natural environment around them.

In East Africa, a lack of border controls and widespread fraud facilitate the illegal timber trade, which has become ...

The okapi, often called the forest giraffe, is found exclusively in the Ituri Rainforest of the Democratic Republic of Congo, where it uses its prehensile tongue to select specific rainforest leaves ...

In 2012, armed men led by a poaching militia leader known as Morgan attacked the Epulu research center, killing seven people and 14 okapis, mascots for the protection of the Ituri forest.

The Ituri Forest, the okapi’s primary habitat, encompasses dense, humid lowland rainforest with limited access for researchers. This isolation was further exacerbated throughout the 20th and early ...

He found those in the Ituri forest, in Congo, to be the smallest, with men averaging 4 feet 9 inches in height and women about three inches less.

The Batwa are believed to have migrated from the Ituri Forest of the Democratic Republic of Congo in search of wild animals to hunt, hence the name Kisoro, literally meaning "the area occupied by ...

Last month at the World Economic Forum (WEF), DRC President Felix Tshisekedi announced the creation of a 2,600 km-long “Green Corridor” stretching from Virunga National Park in the conflict-torn ...