With tropical rainforests, boreal wilderness, and reforested landscapes, these countries have the largest forest cover ...

In the heart of Africa's most remote rainforest lies Dzanga Bai, a forest clearing where shy, elusive elephants gather in astonishing numbers. It is a place so wild and untouched, it's been called the ...

Unraveling the mysteries of the world’s most critical rainforest For decades, the Congo Basin was largely invisible to climate science. Now, a new generation of Central African researchers is ...

For example, the city of Brazzaville, which was mainly forest-based in 1946 [26], has suffered the effects of urbanization and population growth on the sustainability of forests [27] [28]. Other ...

Scattered along the banks of the Ituri River, buildings cram together, cranes transport dirt and debris scatters the soil. The patches of trees are a scant reminder that a forest once grew there ...

It recently renewed its permits until 2048, according to government records. Congo’s mining registry said the map they’re using came from files from the ICCN, the body responsible for managing Congo’s ...

A UN heritage-protected wildlife reserve in Congo is under threat from gold miners. For eight years, Kimia Mining, a Chinese mining company, has been vastly expanding inside an endangered World ...

Advanced Mapping Techniques Reveal More Bais For their study, the scientists developed a technically sophisticated remote-sensing protocol using drone-based Light Detection and Ranging (Lidar) and ...

Whilst the Amazon has attracted huge attention from international donors, the Congo Basin, Earth’s second great rainforest, has been largely neglected.

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 ...

In NASA satellite images, forest fires in central Africa appear to burn alarmingly like a red chain from Gabon to Angola similar to the blazes in Brazil's Amazon that sparked global outcry.