The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is auctioning the licensing rights for dozens of oil and gas blocks, opening up parts of the world’s second-largest rain forest to exploitation.

Four eastern lowland gorillas have been released into the wild in Virunga National Park, DRC, in the largest translocation of ...

The DRC, where more than half of the Congo Basin rainforest lies, still suffers from deep poverty and a history of colonial exploitation, dictatorship, and conflicts that have both held back the ...

Under the deal, 8 million hectares of degraded land and forests are supposed to be regenerated and 30 percent of DRC’s rainforest should be granted a special protected status. Though commendable ...

particularly the Central African rainforest region,” said Dieudonne Nsadisa Faka, a climate scientist based in DRC. “Increased investment in climate science and weather observations is needed ...

Scientists at the Yangambi Biosphere Reserve in the DRC’s Tshopo province are studying the rainforest’s role in climate change — a subject that received scant attention until recently.

Lush rainforest covers millions of hectares of the Democratic Republic ... Greenpeace Africa and a coalition of eight NGOs from DRC and neighbouring Congo-Brazzaville have demanded a halt to all ...

The Democratic Republic of Congo is covered in rainforest and savanna ... essential to the future of one of the DRC's greatest national parks. UNIDENTIFIED RANGERS: (Singing in non-English ...

The country has the Earth's second-largest rainforest after the Amazon. As the second-largest country in Africa, the DRC is the size of Western Europe. It should be one of the richest countries in ...

The world’s three largest rainforest nations Brazil ... “South-to-south cooperation – Brazil, Indonesia, DRC – is very natural,” the Democratic Republic of Congo’s Environment Minister ...

The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) says it will start auctioning off rights next week to enable drilling for oil in more than two dozen areas, including a rainforest region that green action ...