By Ruth Kamnitzer Spanning nearly a tenth of the vast Congo Basin’s rainforest, the transboundary Dja-Odzala-Minkébé (TRIDOM) ...

1 But there’s a more serious factor affecting the prospects of the Congo Basin forests: unrelenting timber demand from around the world. China, Europe and the US are importing vast quantities of wood ...

Illegal mining inside the Okapi Wildlife Reserve in northeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) continues to spread, ...

BRAZZAVILLE — Conservation authorities in the Republic of Congo have launched a plan to invest in the protection of ...

The Congo Basin's tropical forests, known as the "planet's second lung" behind the Amazon, are shrinking by one to five percent a year due to illegal logging and mining, a study said.

The basin is drained by the Congo River and covers approximately 3.7 million km 2, slightly more than the size of India and France put together. A massive forest expanse of 1.5 million km 2 covers the ...

LIBREVILLE - The Congo Basin's tropical forests, known as the "planet's second lung" behind the Amazon, are shrinking by one to five per cent a year due to illegal logging and mining, a study said.

Six African nations have agreed with donors on a plan to protect the tropical forests of the Congo basin, the second biggest in the world, after the Amazon’s, to help ease poverty and combat ...

Chimps are highly adaptive creatures. They can get along just as well in the forests of Congo as on the dry savanna fringes of Senegal. But according to the fragile-cultures hypothesis ...

It is an uncomfortable fact that decades of conflict and poverty in the Democratic Republic of Congo have helped to protect the world's second largest rainforest, and by extension to slow the ...