For centuries, locals have told stories of mokele-mbembe, a legendary creature said to lurk in the Congo Basin. But as forests vanish, sightings are on the rise—offering a glimpse into how folklore is ...

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

Deforestation stayed at a near-record ... Reserve covers 14,000 square kilometers (5,405 square miles) of Congo Basin rainforest. It protects an astounding array of globally significant wildlife ...

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.

Congo rainforest is the second largest ... blames politics for the sorry state of the rainforest. "Deforestation is going on and the equatorial forest has been allocated to private investors ...

Spanning nearly a tenth of the vast Congo Basin’s rainforest, the transboundary ... Human population density and deforestation rates are generally low, making the entire region a high-priority ...

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

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undermining efforts to protect the world’s second largest rainforest, a campaign group said on Wednesday (3 June). The Democratic Republic of Congo's biggest logging companies are systematically ...