For centuries, locals have told stories of mokele-mbembe, a legendary creature said to lurk in the Congo Basin. But as ...

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

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 ...

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.

On the other side of the Atlantic, Glacier National Park is one of ... unique ecology of the world's largest rainforest. In Africa, the rainforest of the Congo Basin, home to endangered species ...

Aerial view of the Amazon Rainforest, near Manaus ... Peru has taken steps to protect this species in various national parks, including Manu National Park and the Pacaya-Samiria National Reserve.

In some of the best-documented cases to date, the study shows the elephant population in the Okapi Faunal Reserve – one of the last strongholds of forest elephants in the Democratic Republic of Congo ...

Thanks to public transit systems and private tours, you can experience these national parks without having to drive. With a rugged island location closer to Canada than to Boston, Maine’s Acadia ...

Rwanda-backed rebels have reached the center of east Congo's second-largest city, Bukavu, and taken control of the South Kivu ...

For centuries, at least, the indigenous Bantu peoples of Central, East, and Southern Africa have traded tales of a lumbering creature living in the Congo River Basin ... and working in and around ...