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

The practice takes place near homes and rivers. Researchers show large chunks of critically important forest are being ...

By Malavika Vyawahare Cacao cultivation is a major threat to the Congo Basin rainforest, with new research showing just where expanding cultivation could imperil the region’s rich wildlife. “We found ...

Recent data tell us that tropical Africa has lost about 22 per cent of its forested a.   rea since 1900, which is comparable to the losses in the Amazon.

Deep in the heart of a lush green forest, an excavator is hard at work, turning over the earth in search of gold. The ...

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 ...

But the park, which is part of the 60 per cent Congo basin rainforest found in DRC ... Initiative Against Organised Crime (GI-TOC) shows deforestation has doubled over the last decade, losing ...

Lead the renewal of the Congo Basin Forest strategy and approach for a new generation of industrial and community forest concessions that deliver for people, nature and climate Invite and import ...

They warned that large-scale deforestation in any of the three major tropical forest zones of the world—Africa’s Congo basin, Southeast Asia, and especially the Amazon—could disrupt the water cycle ...

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 ...