Salonga National Park is Africa's largest tropical rainforest reserve. Situated at the heart of the central basin of the Congo river, the park is very isolated and accessible only by water. It is the ...

We were in one of the most remote places on earth, deep in Congo's rainforest. Reaching a safe ... President Mobutu put the place on the map with a palace complex - dubbed Versailles in the ...

At a time of climate and biodiversity crisis, unsustainable timber trade threatens certain tree species in Central Africa’s Congo Basin - the second-largest ...

Deaths, mass rapes, kidnappings for ransom, displacements, money laundering and costly environmental harm are the results of the violent competition for natural resources in eastern Democratic ...

He now considers himself a photographer activist. His latest project illustrates the state of the rainforest in DR Congo. He spoke to us in Perspective.

One of Brazil's top scientists, Eneas Salati, once said, "The best thing you could do for the Amazon rainforest is to blow ... do not appear on legitimate maps. We call them "ghost roads." ...

Leading biodiversity scientists and E.O. Wilson estimate that another 8 million species are still to be identified. Places ...

Illegal mining operations connected to conflict have been very harmful to biodiversity in the Congo River Basin’s rainforest ... The Washington Post maps access to nature in neighborhoods ...

The study supports efforts to track and map pangolin poaching by the Congo Basin Institute ... and includes two rainforest field stations. The new research offers hope to the international ...