Peru just created a new 700,000-acre conservation area to protect the Amazon rainforest and support Indigenous communities.

The World Heritage Committee, at its 47th session currently taking place in Paris, France, has decided to remove the ...

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.

In East Africa, a lack of border controls and widespread fraud facilitate the illegal timber trade, which has become ...

Fifty-eight people have been killed in Irumu territory in the eastern DR Congo province of Ituri and large numbers of the population" have fled their homes on Thursday.

In 2012, armed men led by a poaching militia leader known as Morgan attacked the Epulu research center, killing seven people and 14 okapis, mascots for the protection of the Ituri forest.

He found those in the Ituri forest, in Congo, to be the smallest, with men averaging 4 feet 9 inches in height and women about three inches less.

The Batwa are believed to have migrated from the Ituri Forest of the Democratic Republic of Congo in search of wild animals to hunt, hence the name Kisoro, literally meaning "the area occupied by ...

In the Democratic Republic of Congo's Ituri province, an environmental catastrophe is unfolding at a rapid pace. The Okapi Wildlife Reserve, a UNESCO World Heritage site once home to some of Earth ...

The patches of trees are a scant reminder that a forest once grew there. Nestled in eastern Congo’s Ituri province, the Chinese-run gold mine is rapidly encroaching on… ...

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 ...