While most people think of the Amazon when discussing tropical rainforests, there's another colossal green giant quietly doing incredible work for our planet. The Congo Basin rainforest spans six ...

This tropical rainforest supports millions of people and is home to spectacular wildlife – but we’re not talking about the Amazon... This tropical rainforest supports millions of people and is home to ...

The Congo Basin is now home to over four million hectares (ha) of sustainably managed forests following certification by the Forest Stewardship Council of numerous locations in the region. Yaoundé, ...

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 ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. The Republic of Congo’s Ministry of Forest Economy, in partnership with the Wildlife Conservation Society, has launched an investment plan for high ...

Are Indigenous people inherently better at caring for natural areas, or does nature need to be protected from them? Both of these reductive stereotypes are often repeated, but neither gives the whole ...

Newswise — The Democratic Republic of Congo’s (DRC) tropical forests stretch across an extraordinary landscape of rivers, wetlands, savannas and towering trees. But in a forest this vast, biodiversity ...

The Republic of Congo had been protecting about half of its dense rainforests via the Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation (REDD+) framework. In exchange, the country is ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A newly identified monkey species in Congo's rainforest reveals how much of Earth's biodiversity remains unknown. (CREDIT: Hunter ...

Mining for minerals in the Congo could help save the rainforest, former minister says - IN FOCUS: Lee White – a former minister for the environment in Gabon – tells Nick Ferris why he believes investm ...

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 ...