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Plantation of bananas, teak and cocoa in Yanonge – DRC.  Photo by Axel Fassio/CIFOR-ICRAF via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0).

Can a luxury chocolate company help a Congolese forest?

Valisoa Rasolofomboahangy 16 Nov 2022
Okapis (Okapia johnstoni) are related to giraffes. Image in the public domain.

Element Africa: Mines take their toll on nature and communities

Mongabay.com 20 Oct 2022

Study highlights ‘friends with benefits’ relation between gorillas and chimps

Ryan Truscott 12 Oct 2022
A bonobo

Easygoing bonobos accepting of outsiders, study says

Charles Mpaka 10 Oct 2022

Locals in the dark about oil auctions in DRC: report

Ashoka Mukpo 6 Oct 2022
People wait on the Kasai bank to cross the river.

The mine leak was bad. The DRC and Angola’s response are no better, report says

Anna Weekes 4 Oct 2022
A fishing community settlement in Salonga

Catfished: New species described from DRC after mistaken identity

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 30 Sep 2022
Study co-author Corneille Ewango.

In Congo, a carbon sink like no other risks being carved up for oil

John Cannon 28 Jul 2022

‘That’s a scam’: Indian firm’s REDD+ carbon deal in the DRC raises concern

John Cannon 14 Jun 2022

Loggers close in on one of the world’s oldest biosphere reserves

Gloria Pallares 13 Jun 2022

In the DRC’s forests, a tug-of-war between oil and aid

Ashoka Mukpo 7 Jun 2022

Suspension of Chinese miner for pollution in DRC points to wider problem

Immaculée Inamuco 1 Jun 2022
Forest elephants in the Congo Basin.

Ivory from at least 150 poached elephants seized in the DRC raid

Malavika Vyawahare 18 May 2022

Oil exploration in DR Congo peatland risks forests, climate and local communities

Lawon Olalekan 16 May 2022
Artisanal miners in Rubaya area, DRC.

Scheme to stop ‘conflict minerals’ fails to end child labor in DRC, report says

Amindeh Blaise Atabong 10 May 2022

DRC logging contracts suspended as audit uncovers serious violations

Lawon Olalekan 6 May 2022
Krasnoyarsk, Siberia, is just one region where fires are burned throughout Russia in 2020. Image by Greenpeace International.

2021 tropical forest loss figures put zero-deforestation goal by 2030 out of reach

Hans Nicholas Jong 28 Apr 2022

In Nigeria, a decade of payoffs boosted global wildlife trafficking hub

Ini Ekott 4 Mar 2022

DRC’s cacao boom leaves a bitter aftertaste for Congo Basin forest

Malavika Vyawahare 18 Feb 2022
Kahuzi-Biega National Park

A conservation paradigm based on Indigenous values in DR Congo (commentary)

Sushil Raj; Dr. Albert Kwokwo Barume 17 Feb 2022

At a plantation in Central Africa, Big Oil tries to go net-zero

Ashoka Mukpo 20 Jan 2022
Composite image. Left: Amazon rainforest - photo credit: Rhett A. Butler. Right: Burning forest in the Brazilian Amazon - image credit: Greenpeace

The year in rainforests 2021

Rhett Ayers Butler 29 Dec 2021

The Congo Basin’s 10 most consequential stories from 2021

John Cannon 27 Dec 2021

The past, present and future of the Congo peatlands: 10 takeaways from our series

John Cannon 16 Dec 2021

Carbon and communities: The future of the Congo Basin peatlands

John Cannon 14 Dec 2021

Holding agriculture and logging at bay in the Congo peatlands

John Cannon 9 Dec 2021

Layers of carbon: The Congo Basin peatlands and oil

John Cannon 7 Dec 2021

The ‘idea’: Uncovering the peatlands of the Congo Basin

John Cannon 2 Dec 2021
Emanuel Balisa Akangi, hunting in the forest, Yangambi, DRC.near Yangambi, Tshopo Province, DRC. Image by Axel Fassio/CIFOR via Flickr. (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

DRC environment minister panned for allegedly facilitating illegal concessions

Mongabay 19 Nov 2021

High risk, low pay for DRC rangers entrusted to guard a gorilla sanctuary

David Kalinga Safari 8 Oct 2021

Address risky human activities now or face new pandemics, scientists warn

Sharon Guynup 3 Aug 2021

‘Stubborn optimism’ for elephants fuels Indigenous conservation effort

Mike Gaworecki 28 Jul 2021

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