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

How Matching Dinosaur Footprints Ended Up on Opposite Sides of the Atlantic Ocean Meet the Hell Chickens, A Newly Discovered ...

CIVICUS discusses activism against oil auctions in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) with François Kamate, founder and coordinator of the young environmental volunteer movement Extinction ...

followed by the Republic of Congo, Bolivia, Indonesia, and Peru. The increase in deforestation in Brazil was registered during the Jair Bolsonaro (PL) government, which, according to the study ...

Indonesia’s deforestation increased in 2024 to its highest level since 2021, with forest area four times the size of Jakarta lost; 97% of this occurred within legal concessions, highlighting a ...

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 ...

Current political and economic issues succinctly explained. In January, rebel fighters claimed the eastern city of Goma in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Their sweep into Goma—a ...

Almost 3,000 people have been killed in fighting in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the UN has said. Vivian van de Perre, a senior UN official based in the city of Goma, said the ...