In association with the Pulitzer Rainforest Centre Rainforest Investigations Network, a four-part series investigating timber smuggling from the DRC through Kenya and Uganda.

African teak grows to a prodigious 50 m with buttresses up to 3 m high to keep the tree propped up. The trunk has no foliage for the first 25 m – 30 m. Pericopsis elata is only found in the drier ...

Shooting up from the rainforest canopy, the moabi’s parasol-like crown stands out clearly in the Congo River Basin forest landscape. This tree is restricted to areas of primary evergreen and old ...

But those new rubber tree plantations would take time to grow, and hundreds of other plants also produce latex, in varying quantities - even humble dandelions. In the Congo's rainforest were vines ...