It is also Africa’s biggest rainforest and the second-largest in the ... the Republic of Congo, Equatorial Guinea, and Gabon. The forest covers an area of around 300 million hectares and ...

A recently published paper reveals that soil scratching by gorillas in Congo's Nouabalé-Ndoki National Park is a foraging ...

The Congolese government can ban former President Joseph Kabila's party, but peace in the country's east will only come when Kinshasa addresses the threat to Rwanda from the genocidal militia, FDLR, ...

The Congolese government can ban former President Joseph Kabila's party, but peace in the country’s east will only come when Kinshasa addresses the threat to Rwanda from the genocidal militia, FDLR, ...

Gorillas aren't hunting bugs - they're foraging for truffles. A new study uncovers surprising behavior deep in the Congo ...

It's secondary forest because the loggers have ... He found those in the Ituri forest, in Congo, to be the smallest, with men averaging 4 feet 9 inches in height and women about three inches ...

At the core of these technological ... The Congo Basin rainforest is the second-largest tropical forest in the world, storing large volumes of carbon and hosting high levels of biodiversity.

Having been one of the most charismatic, towering and visible global figures for over a decade, there isn’t much that Pope ...

To do this, Berthet and her colleagues built a database of 700 bonobo calls and deciphered them using methods drawn from ...

One leg is protected areas like national parks, the second is species-focused programs ... energy — and funding — into the ...

However, it turned out to be a giant elephant. The Congo Basin is Earth’s second-largest rainforest. It has lost a major forest cover in the past few years, opening up the gates to an animal world ...