Standing on a riverbank in Lac Télé Community Reserve in March, naturalist Joseph Oyange watched as fishermen guided their ...

West Africa newsperson Sam Mednick uncovered the extent of mining within the contested boundaries of a protected heritage ...

One of the largest of its kind, this iron ore deposit lies in once intact forest just outside Minkébé national park - a gorilla habitat and the Congo Basin's greatest refuge for forest elephants.

a forest giraffe, of which it holds some 15% of the world’s remaining 30,000. It’s part of the Congo Basin rainforest — the world’s second-biggest — and a vital carbon sink that helps ...

The patches of trees are a scant reminder that a forest once grew there. Nestled in eastern Congo's Ituri province, the Chinese-run gold mine is rapidly encroaching on an area that many say it ...

Our reporter went to Congo, where the mpox epidemic has reached the teeming capital, infecting children and their mothers, ...

Scattered along the banks of the Ituri River, buildings cram together, cranes transport dirt and debris scatters the soil. The p ...

Home to a staggering array of biodiversity like forest elephants, chimpanzees, bonobos, and lowland and mountain gorillas, the Congo Basin's importance for both climate and biodiversity cannot be ...

a forest giraffe, of which it holds some 15% of the world’s remaining 30,000. It’s part of the Congo Basin rainforest — the world’s second-biggest — and a vital carbon sink that helps ...