The "Mapping for Rights" program trains forest people in the Congo Basin to map the land they live on. Pictured is an early sketch map produced by an indigenous community in the Inongo territory ...

The Congo tropical forest is simply different Date: February 7, 2022 Source: ETH Zurich Summary: Until now, research assumed that the vast forest area of the Congo Basin, like other tropical ...

This biomass map (the first of its kind) was derived using imagery from the MODIS sensor and a large set of field measurements (see Baccini et al. 2008, A first map of tropical Africa’s above ...

In this March 19, 2010 photo, Oskar Biteye, grandson of family chief Zaire and the group's youngest hunter, returns from the hunt with his day's catch, a forest antelope, in the Okapi Wildlife ...

POKOLA, Republic of Congo -- For Pygmies logging the rain forests of central Africa, the chain saw's whine signals the promise of work -- and threatens a way of life.

Here, the Congo River, a waterway of monstrous dimensions, concludes its epic passage across equatorial Africa and, raging at its denouement, has carved a 100-mile-long canyon into the floor of ...

In an important boost for the conservation and sustainable management of the Congo basin forests, the total Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) certified area in Cameroon has exceeded one million ...

A ministerial commission in the Democratic Republic of Congo has recommended terminating 30 forest concessions due to alleged irregularities, it said in a preliminary report published on Tuesday.

Democratic Republic of Congo's environment minister said on Friday unidentified officials forged her signature to grant conservation licences for the country's vast forests that play a pivotal ...

Until now, research assumed that the vast forest area of the Congo Basin, like other tropical forests, releases large amounts of nitrous oxide and binds methane. Researchers at ETH Zurich have now ...