For centuries, locals have told stories of mokele-mbembe, a legendary creature said to lurk in the Congo Basin. But as ...

Spanning nearly a tenth of the vast Congo Basin’s rainforest, the transboundary ... Human population density and deforestation rates are generally low, making the entire region a high-priority ...

Congo rainforest is the second largest ... blames politics for the sorry state of the rainforest. "Deforestation is going on and the equatorial forest has been allocated to private investors ...

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 ... due to continued deforestation and ...

For the best experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings. Deaths, mass rapes, kidnappings for ransom, displacements, money laundering and costly ...

Deforestation is a major man-made source of ... like the Democratic Republic of Congo. Forests naturally act as a storage unit, or "sink," for carbon emissions into the atmosphere, absorbing ...