DRC has launched a plan for a green corridor at the world's largest protected area - but local people say they haven't been ...

program funded by the World Bank’s Forest Carbon Partnership Facility (FCPF). An example of the destruction caused by semi-industrial gold mining by Mac Congo left behind in the Sangha.

The world's peatlands are "dangerously under-protected", warns a new study, despite their critical role in storing vast ...

Conservation projects across the world are reeling from the Trump administration’s abrupt decision to shut down USAID and ...

There is a “mismatch” between the importance of peatlands and their current level of protection, a new study warns.

In the Republic of Congo’s Sangha region, the expansion of mining activities within conservation areas undermines the ...

The government of Paul Kagame, Rwanda’s president, appears intent on rewriting Congo’s map by seizing land, and so far, beyond issuing reproofs, Western countries have barely mustered a response.

The fall of Goma heralds more bloodshed in eastern Congo Rwanda’s reckless plan to redraw the map of Africa Photo essay ... his Donbas—is far worse. A world in which the strong seize territory ...

Peatlands are important — the UN Environment Programme estimates as much as 600 billion tonnes of carbon are stored there, as decaying organic material gets trapped inside a water-rich environment.

The largest city in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has long been a refuge for those fleeing from violence elsewhere in one of the world ... to redraw the map of the region ...

A new study finds only 17 per cent of the world’s peatlands are in protected areas, a vast under-protection considering how critical they are to carbon storage, biodiversity and water regulation. But ...

The Bambuti is a collective name for four populations of Ituri Pygmies who live in the Ituri Forest in Eastern Congo Early Egyptian records suggest the Bambuti are probably the earliest ...