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 ...

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

World Bonobo Day highlights the urgent need to protect bonobos from habitat destruction, poaching, and deforestation.

Spanning nearly a tenth of the vast Congo Basin’s rainforest, the transboundary ... Human population density and deforestation rates are generally low, making the entire region a high-priority ...

Interview - CIVICUS discusses activism against oil auctions in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) with François Kamate, founder and coordinator of the young environmental volunteer movement ...

CIVICUS discusses activism against oil auctions in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) with François Kamate, founder and coordinator of the young environmental volunteer movement Extinction ...

The environmental destruction extends beyond the visible deforestation ... but the global climate, as the Congo Basin rainforest serves as the world's second-largest carbon sink.