Lake Chad's dramatic shrinkage has brought about severe impacts on the lives of millions. To counteract this crisis, ...

The Congo Basin is the world’s biggest tropical storehouse of carbon, its forest stretching almost across the African continent and covering an area larger than India. Yet little is known about it.

Public boats, with ample sleeping quarters, plied the Congo until the government of the DRC let them fall into disrepair. Now river traffic consists largely of barges (top) and pirogues (center). With ...

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Many people, especially Indigenous communities, depend on the Congo Basin for food, water, and materials to support their farming. In some parts of the DRC, Cameroon, and Gabon, economic hardship has ...

The Congo River Basin, covering some 3.7 million km² across central Africa, ranks as the world’s second-largest river system by discharge. Its hydrology is characterised by a pronounced seasonal flood ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. A recent study created a machine-learning program that estimated the amount of carbon dioxide already stored, and sequestered annually, by ...

The Congo Basin rainforest is the second-largest tropical forest in the world, storing large volumes of carbon and hosting high levels of biodiversity. While these forests have historically stayed ...

WWF, Climate Focus and COMIFAC's new discussion paper proposes strategies to mobilize international public and private finance to conserve Congo Basin forests. Conserving the forests of the Congo ...

On November 27, the Rainforest Foundation UK (RFUK) released a report on data it collected on human rights complaints procedures at 24 protected areas in four Congo Basin countries. The data showed ...

Introduction / Barry Hewlett -- Cultural diversity of African Pygmies / Serge Bahuchet -- Population genetics of Central African Pygmies and non-Pygmies / Paul Verdu -- On Late Holocene population ...

Western lowland gorilla walking through a cloud of butterflies in Bai Hokou, Dzanga-Sangha Forest Reserve, Central African Republic. © naturepl.com / Anup Shah / WWF ...