The west suburbs of Chicago, with their howling winters, are not the sort of place a gardener would normally try to plant an outdoor jungle modeled on equatorial Africa’s Ituri Forest. Despit… ...

Four groups of Ituri Pygmies, together referred to as the Bambuti, live in the Ituri Forest in the Eastern Congo (Kinshasa). Their average height is less than 4 feet 6 inches (137 cm).

Bark cloths were historically beaten from fibrous vines and used as canvases for Mbuti women of the Ituri Forest to paint various designs referencing the natural environment around them.

The Okapi is a rare mammal with of traits of both the zebra and the giraffe found exclusively in the Ituri Forest of The Congo. Like the Okapi, the world is a mixture of races and beliefs unified ...

Considering this importance, it is not surprising that the vines are used, physically and figuratively, to reference the primacy of the Ituri Forest environment and its subsequent adaptation for human ...

Deep in the heart of Africa’s rainforests, there’s a beautiful, unique, rare, and elusive creature that was once believed to ...

The birth of a rare okapi — also known as the forest giraffe — is delighting zookeepers at Chester Zoo in the U.K. as conservationists hope the animal's arrival will shed light on the species.

In 1913, while he was poking about in the Ituri forest of the Belgian Congo, young Ornithologist James P. Chapin came upon a grinning black native proudly wearing in his headdress a brown and ...

Scattered along the banks of the Ituri River, buildings cram together, cranes transport dirt and debris scatters the soil. The patches of trees are a scant reminder that a forest once grew there ...

Another nickname for the okapi is the “forest giraffe,” a nod to their habitat in the dense Ituri Rainforest. If you only had access to a photo of an okapi, you might be surprised to find out they’re ...

This refers to the pigmies of the Ituri forest, but a couple of hundred miles to the south, the pigmies of the forested highlands west of Lake Kivu certainly do make fires.