A September 9 internal report by the United Nations Population Fund found that 268 out of the 348 women held in the ...

U.S. government agencies responsible for handing out conservation grants overseas still aren’t doing enough to protect human ...

Forests are often destroyed through human activity such as logging with chainsaws or the deliberate use of fire. The aim is ...

Through all his weathervane shifts of mood, Congolese Premier Patrice Lumumba has never shifted on one point: the Congo, he insists, is a single, unified nation of 14 million people. But with ...

A new study has used satellite images and artificial intelligence to map Congo Basin forest roads in unprecedented detail.

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

Protected areas (PAs) contribute to preventing, on average, just 30% of forest loss, with the lowest levels of protection observed in some of the world’s most biodiversity-rich countries, a paper has ...

Saphire mining at Bemainty, Madagascar in 2016, had limited impacts on the surrounding forest loss and degradation relative to other threats, according to an analysis combining mapping method with ...

Three Americans were among 37 people sentenced to death in the Democratic Republic of Congo on Friday over what the army says ...

A lost bird Everything we know for certain about the Itombwe owl comes from just two individuals: one dead for more than 70 ...