But this unique habitat, which boasts a dazzling array of wildlife from forest elephants to mountain gorillas, is in trouble. Last year, forest loss in the Congo basin jumped by 30,000 hectares, a ...

It's home to the only mountain gorillas left on the planet. But parts of this precious land are now up for auction. Congo is selling 30 oil and gas drilling blocks across the Congo Basin ...

Democratic Republic of Congo’s oil ministry said Tuesday that companies bidding for 30 oil and gas permits this week will need to commit to environmental and social protection plans as criticism ...

Despite growing pleas from climate change activists, the Democratic Republic of Congo says it is moving forward with its plans to auction off a vast majority of oil and gas drilling blocks located ...

Congo rainforest basin is a carbon sink; ... Two of the other oil blocks overlap with Virunga National Park, a sanctuary for endangered mountain gorillas on the borders with Rwanda and Uganda.

Many may blend with adjoining mangrove forests, moist forests, mountain forests, ... Another 20% of the world's remaining rainforest exists in Indonesia and the Congo Basin, ...

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Making sense of the mayhem is not easy. Over 100 armed groups and several national armies are vying for supremacy across a region of lakes, mountains and rainforests slightly bigger than Florida.

A mountain collapsed in the Katanga region of the Democratic Republic of Congo, revealing tonnes of copper. A video capturing the dramatic fall of the mountain emerged on X. In it, people can be ...

Therefore, deforestation of the Congo rainforest, the second largest in the world, is pushing many animal species to extinction. Data shows that mountain gorillas, bush elephants and okapi that ...