Uganda's chimpanzee experiences are among the finest on earth. And nowhere is that more evident than in two remarkable ...

Africa needs its forests for sustainable development, poverty reduction, food security, and to make the continent more resilient to climate change. They take up 23% of the continent. At 674 million ...

Unsplash Deep within the shrinking rainforests of West Africa lives a crocodile that behaves nothing like the sluggish, ...

Africa's forests are some of the natural wonders of the world. As someone who has spent decades studying the ecology and management of tropical forests, I'm constantly amazed by the unique forest ...

Negotiators discussing wildlife trade rules have agreed overwhelmingly to back a proposal that regulates the currently unrestricted trade in all seven species of African forest hornbills. Eight West ...

Humans lived under the leafy canopy of a West African rainforest by at least 150,000 years ago. Previously, the oldest secure evidence for humans living in African rainforests dated to about 18,000 ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. The first authoritative population assessment for African forest elephants estimates there are more than 145,000 individuals. Researchers say new ...

The Republic of the Congo became an independent nation on August 15th, 1960. Measuring in at more than two million square kilometers, Central Africa’s Congolian rainforests play host to a truly ...

New research examining mining across Africa suggests the sector is driving far more forest loss than the size of mine sites alone would indicate. The study points to impacts that spread into ...