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DRC deforestation escalates despite resource shortages, protests, rape, homicide

John Cannon 10 Jul 2014

Oil, wildlife, and people: competing visions of development collide in Virunga National Park

Analysis Daniel Stiles 7 Jul 2014

New report: illegal logging keeps militias and terrorist groups in business

Janaki Lenin 30 Jun 2014

What does SOCO’s withdrawal really mean for the future of Virunga National Park?

Analysis Daniel Stiles 17 Jun 2014

Grenades, helicopters, and scooping out brains: poachers decimate elephant population in park

Jeremy Hance 15 Jun 2014

Oil overthrow: Soco to suspend operations in Virunga National Park after sustained campaign by WWF

Jeremy Hance 11 Jun 2014

DRC seeks $1B to save its rainforest

Mongabay.com 22 May 2014

Hope in the Heart of Darkness: huge population of chimpanzees discovered in the DRC

Julian Moll-rocek 20 May 2014

Dams be damned: study finds large dams are too expensive

Paul Sutherland 19 May 2014

Okapi-killing warlord shot dead in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Jeremy Hance 17 Apr 2014

Nearly 90 percent of logging in the DRC is illegal

Jeremy Hance 8 Apr 2014

Europe not doing enough to stop illegal logging imports says Greenpeace

Jeremy Hance 4 Mar 2014

Total says it will not drill in any World Heritage Sites

Jeremy Hance 3 Feb 2014

Population growth and associated food demand to take heavy toll on rainforests

Rhett Ayers Butler 16 Jan 2014

Africa to build world’s largest dam, but who will benefit?

Dr Liz Kimbrough 17 Dec 2013

Bonobos: the Congo Basin’s great gardeners

Christina Pham 11 Dec 2013

Sky islands: exploring East Africa’s last frontier

Jeremy Hance 4 Dec 2013

28 percent of potential bonobo habitat remains suitable

Jeremy Hance 27 Nov 2013

Elusive giraffe-relative – the okapi – now listed as Endangered

Jeremy Hance 26 Nov 2013

A year after devastating attack, security returns to the Okapi Wildlife Reserve (photos)

Jeremy Hance 9 Sep 2013

Deforestation alerts for Madagascar, DRC, Bolivia during Q2-2013

Mongabay.com 16 Aug 2013

Meet Thor’s shrew: scientists discover new mammal with a superior spine

Jeremy Hance 30 Jul 2013

NGO hits out at study for downplaying logging threat in Congo rainforest

Rhett Ayers Butler 23 Jul 2013

Deforestation rate falls in Congo Basin countries

Rhett Ayers Butler 22 Jul 2013

African militias trading elephant ivory for weapons

Kara Moses 5 Jun 2013

Forest certification body revokes Swiss logging company’s certificate over alleged Congo abuses

Mongabay.com 21 May 2013

Why responsible tourism is the key to saving the mountain gorilla

Anne-marie Weeden With Journeys Discovering Africa 13 May 2013

Endangered primates and cats may be hiding out in swamps and mangrove forests

Jeremy Hance 2 May 2013

Scientists discover new giant mole rat in Africa (photos)

Jeremy Hance 30 Apr 2013

Amazon: the world’s greatest rainforest or internet giant?

Jonathan Watts 25 Apr 2013

Conservation policies that boost farm yields may ultimately undermine forest protection, argues study

Rhett Ayers Butler 17 Apr 2013

Beautiful striped bat is the “find of a lifetime” (photos)

Jeremy Hance 10 Apr 2013

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