DRC has launched a plan for a green corridor at the world's largest protected area - but local people say they haven't been ...

New research says the world's peatlands — squishy, waterlogged, buggy habitats — are vastly under-protected, despite the critical role they play in regulating the environment. "17 per cent of ...

These activities, which have bypassed international protection standards and Congolese law, are wreaking havoc on the landscape along the Ituri River ... as the Congo Basin rainforest serves ...

Count northern Uganda in the days of Lord's Resistance Army; count Democratic Republic of Congo's Katanga ... In Lake Chad Basin's case, most probably, the shrinking of the once mighty lake was the ...

Peatlands are important — the UN Environment Programme estimates as much as 600 billion tonnes of carbon are stored there, as decaying organic material gets trapped inside a water-rich environment.

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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. The alleged dinosaur-like ...

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

Wildlife in the heart of the Congo Basin, an area that stretches from western ... overlaid this with areas of high biodiversity. Their maps show southern Cameroon, nearly all of Equatorial Guinea ...

Most continue to call for a ceasefire and a dialogue between Congo and the rebels. The Congo River Alliance, a coalition of rebel groups that includes the M23, has said it was committed to ...