Logging and mining are destroying swathes of the Congo rainforest, with the result that African forests went from being a ...

For decades, we’ve relied on the world’s tropical forests to do the heavy lifting in the fight against climate change. We ...

The new assessment totals 135,690 forest elephants, 16 percent more than the figure estimated in 2016, with an additional ...

New research warns that Africa's forests, once vital allies in the fight against climate change, have turned from a carbon ...

New research shows Africa’s forests now release more carbon than they absorb. This raises global climate risks and calls for ...

The development means that the world’s three major rainforest regions — South American Amazon, Southeast Asia, and Africa — ...

Discover how widespread deforestation in rainforests has turned these tropical regions from a carbon sink into a carbon ...

A new assessment of African Forest Elephants reveals an estimated 135,690 individuals1, with an additional 7,728 to 10,990 ...

A new IUCN report shows African forest elephants are more numerous than previously believed, not due to recovery, but thanks ...

A coalition of African nations has secured new Cites controls on the international trade of hornbills amid concerns over ...

With the announcement of two major forest finance initiatives at the climate talks in Belém, Brazil, there is renewed hope that the Congo Basin, home to the world’s second-largest tropical rainforest, ...

Fast-expanding logging roads in the Congo basin are becoming “highways of death” for the fierce but elusive forest elephant, according to a new study published in the journal Public Library of Science ...