Deep in the heart of a lush green forest, an excavator is hard at work, turning over the earth in search of gold. The ...

CIVICUS discusses activism against oil auctions in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) with François Kamate, founder and coordinator of the young environmental volunteer movement Extinction ...

Cacao cultivation is a major threat to the Congo Basin rainforest, with new research showing just where expanding cultivation ...

The Amazon and Congo Basin rainforests are two of Earth’s most vital ecosystems, yet they face threats that could forever ...

Recent data tell us that tropical Africa has lost about 22 per cent of its forested a.   rea since 1900, which is comparable to the losses in the Amazon.

The practice takes place near homes and rivers. Researchers show large chunks of critically important forest are being ...

In the Democratic Republic of Congo's Ituri province, an environmental catastrophe is unfolding at a rapid pace. The Okapi ...

Spanning nearly a tenth of the vast Congo Basin’s rainforest, the transboundary ... Human population density and deforestation rates are generally low, making the entire region a high-priority ...

Producers of coffee and cocoa in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have been accorded a one-year reprieve ... 62 percent of which is tropical rainforest, including 105 square kilometres of peat ...

The launch of the new National Automotive Policy (NAP) today is expected to strengthen and help create a clear direction for ...

But today, Fenoaivo and other vulnerable communities across southern Africa and beyond have found an antidote: a multipronged rural development initiative spearheaded by the World Food Programme (WFP) ...