The second largest, the Congo Basin rainforest in Central Africa, covers 780,000 square miles. This rainforest spans six ...

Situated within a large equatorial forest, the area had been plagued by two decades of conflict, with myriad armed groups ...

High-level forest summits are coming up thick and fast. Gabon's One Forest Summit is set to get under way on 1 March, while, in the neighbouring Republic of the Congo, Denis Sassou Nguesso is ...

Marc Ona Essangui is founder of the environmental NGO Brainforest and president of Environment Gabon, a network of NGOs. Marc Ona Essangui led efforts to expose agreements behind a Chinese mining ...

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By Eileen Travers How do you bring a war criminal to justice? UN Video reported on the case of Sheka, the infamous leader of ...

The Resilient Equatorial Forests Foundation and local governments are collaborating to build orangutan crossings over roads.

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.

Q. I recently came across an article about growing coffee plants indoors. Have you ever had one of these plants? Are they ...

Overview of the climate of equatorial tropical forests, and current issues these environments face. Extraction industries, cattle farming and other developments lead to deforestation and negative ...

Joe Biden visits Amazon rainforest in a first for a sitting US president Mr Biden emphasises that his administration is leaving good measures in place for the next where it comes to tackling ...