To date, agricultural expansion in sub-Saharan Africa has mainly been driven by small-scale subsistence farmers. Yet since 2005, 22.7 million hectares of land in sub-Saharan Africa has been acquired ...

Health officials do not know the cause of the outbreaks, or whether the cases in the two remote villages are related ...

New research in the Congo Basin is revealing how this daily rhythm of the world’s second largest rainforest influences the globe. Within the dense canopy of the Congo Basin Rainforest ...

Experts say this might be what is happening in Congo, which is home to about 60% of the forests in the Congo Basin, home to the largest expanse of tropical forest on earth. “All these viruses ...

Yet, in recent years, one critical forest has continued to shine as a beacon of hope in the battle against climate change – the Congo Basin. Now, with an ambitious new initiative in the ...

High-definition trail cameras at a national park in the Republic of the Congo revealed a “truly breathtaking” glimpse of some elusive rainforest animals. Conservationists hope the project ...

The Amazon showed the most severe destruction from follow-up road building, with an associated forest loss 305 times greater than that directly linked to first-cut roads. In the Congo Basin and ...

Building on these achievements, the World Bank is expanding its climate and environmental investment in the DRC with a $300 million program to protect forests and savanna. For over a decade, the vast ...

James Cook University-led research has revealed secondary roads branching from major highways in tropical forests linked to ...

expanse of lowland rainforest in the Republic of Congo managed by the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS). Camera traps are routinely used for scientific research in parks like Nouabalé-Ndoki ...