Residents and business owners in eastern Congo's second largest city sat in wait on Saturday morning after a night of loud ...

The US Fish and Wildlife Service, the nation’s only government agency dedicated to conserving plants and animals, has frozen ...

Conservation projects across the world are reeling from the Trump administration’s abrupt decision to shut down USAID and ...

The past three years have been turbulent for the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, a region that has experienced ...

GOMA, Congo (AP) — Rwanda-backed rebels claim to have seized a second airport in east Congo amid fierce fighting.

Rwanda's Volcanoes National Park has the advantage of easier treks due to less dense vegetation. The Virunga National Park in ...

Report is the first to comprehensively assess the global conservation status of peatlands, which store more carbon than all the world's forests' biomass combined; calls for urgent action to protect ...

Recent news has emerged that authorities in the DRC ordered the seizure of 12 rescued chimpanzees, to be relocated to a ...

New research says the world's peatlands — squishy, waterlogged, buggy habitats — are vastly under-protected, despite the critical role they play in regulating the environment. "17 per cent of ...

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

During a joint EAC-SADC summit, leaders of both organizations called for immediate and unconditional ceasefire. Rwandan ...