Forest elephants’ browsing habits play a vital role in shaping their habitat, allowing large, carbon-dense tree species to thrive. The elephants frequent muddy, mineral-rich clearings called baïs ...

Authorities protecting the Gabonese segment of Central Africa’s biggest forest elephant stronghold captured a record number of poachers last week. However, “terrifying” intelligence gathered from ...

Millions of years ago, countless massive plant-eating creatures known as megaherbivores roamed the planet’s rainforests during the Pleistocene era. “These results help reinforce our understanding that ...

International Business Machines Corporation IBM recently announced a collaboration with the World Wide Fund (“WWF”) for Nature - Germany to focus on advancing the conservation of critically endangered ...

The Republic of Congo’s Ministry of Forest Economy, in partnership with the Wildlife Conservation Society, has launched an investment plan for high-integrity forests in Nouabalé-Ndoki National Park.

Deforestation, weak governance and extractive pressures also threaten this vital ecosystem, scientists said in the landmark ...

If the Amazon is the lungs of the world, then the Congo basin is its beating heart. This vast region in central Africa is home to the world’s second-largest – and most pristine – tropical rainforest, ...

The region’s forests currently absorb 600 million tons of planet-warming carbon dioxide a year, equivalent to Germany’s emissions. That makes the basin the world’s biggest tropical carbon sink. But ...