The Congo rainforest covers the very heart of Africa. From the crowded, competitive centre of the forest to the open edge of the Atlantic ocean, this is all about carving out space in a crowded world.

The world's largest rainforest, the Amazon, spans 2.3 million square miles across nine South American countries. The second largest, the Congo Basin rainforest in Central Africa, covers 780,000 ...

undermining efforts to protect the world’s second largest rainforest, a campaign group said on Wednesday (3 June). The Democratic Republic of Congo's biggest logging companies are systematically ...