Standing on a riverbank in Lac Télé Community Reserve in March, naturalist Joseph Oyange watched as fishermen guided their ...

The Congo Basin rainforest is the second-largest tropical forest in the world, storing large volumes of carbon and hosting ...

West Africa newsperson Sam Mednick uncovered the extent of mining within the contested boundaries of a protected heritage site in eastern Congo. Mednick ...

Traveling to remote Pygmy villages requires significant preparation. Visitors are advised to engage local guides who are ...

The Congo Basin's tropical forests, known as the "planet's second lung" behind the Amazon, are shrinking by one to five percent a year due to illegal logging and mining, a study said. As the ...

The patches of trees are a scant reminder that a forest once grew there. Nestled in eastern Congo's Ituri province, the Chinese-run gold mine is rapidly encroaching on an area that many say it ...

Home to a staggering array of biodiversity like forest elephants, chimpanzees, bonobos, and lowland and mountain gorillas, the Congo Basin's importance for both climate and biodiversity cannot be ...

It’s part of the Congo Basin rainforest — the world’s second-biggest — and a vital carbon sink that helps mitigate climate change. It also has vast mineral wealth such as gold and diamonds.

Mark Weinhold recalls a moment while standing at the edge of a large ravine carved by massive flooding along the Congo River ...