Likweli is easy to miss, even for people who know central Africa’s forests well. The small black monkey lives high in dense ...

Pascal Mirindi is a young environmental activist based in the Democratic Republic of Congo, born in Goma. He was a member of ...

The Climate Security Advisor/UNOCA, Mabaye Dia, took part in the 2nd African Climate Summit held from 8 to 10 September 2025 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. During the Summit, young people from the Congo ...

Over the past 75 years, only a handful of new monkey species have been discovered in Africa—but now a new one has been found.

A previously unknown species of Colobus monkey, distinguished by a call that sounds more like a croaking frog than a primate, ...

Learn more about Colobus congoensis, the fifth new monkey species discovered in Africa in the last 75 years.

In the heart of the Congo Basin's Cuvette Centrale, a large depression hosting the world's biggest tropical wetland complex, lie two vast, shallow blackwater lakes, Lake Tumba and Lake Mai Ndombe.

The forest elephants of the Congo Basin are critically endangered and face extinction. They live in Africa's largest forest, extending over the continent's west and central regions. Large populations ...

The UK has abandoned projects worth tens of millions of pounds that were meant to help protect Congo rainforests and support ...

Many people, especially Indigenous communities, depend on the Congo Basin for food, water, and materials to support their farming. In some parts of the DRC, Cameroon, and Gabon, economic hardship has ...

Introduction / Barry Hewlett -- Cultural diversity of African Pygmies / Serge Bahuchet -- Population genetics of Central African Pygmies and non-Pygmies / Paul Verdu -- On Late Holocene population ...