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

Explore the significance of Africa's Miombo Forest, a vast, biodiverse region critical to the planet's ecological health.

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 ...

It is part of the Congo Basin and it’s home to many protected species. Its net annual absorption of CO2 is six times greater than that of the Amazon Rainforest. This ecosystem therefore plays a ...

When night falls in the Batwa village of Lukwangulo, only the local chief’s house is illuminated. In this village in the ...

United Nations conference on biodiversity that ran out of time last year will resume its work Tuesday in Rome with money at ...

the Amazon rainforest faced yearly average temperature increases above 2° Celsius. Record-breaking heat waves, droughts, and fires have ravaged the region; deforestation is still too high ...

Chandler said deforestation in the Amazon has far-reaching impacts across South America, just as it does in the Congo Basin and other major biodiverse regions worldwide. “We know that has an ...

The beetles are found in the rainforests of Sierra Leone, Liberia, Guinea, Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana, Burkina Faso, Benin, Nigeria, Cameroon, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda and South Sudan.