While most people think of the Amazon when discussing tropical rainforests, there's another colossal green giant quietly doing incredible work for our planet. The Congo Basin rainforest spans six ...

Global efforts to protect Africa’s rainforests have failed to halt the rapid destruction of one of the world’s last intact tropical forests, a new study has found. The Congo Basin, second only to the ...

The Democratic Republic of Congo government has opened bids for oil and gas drilling across huge swathes of the country, raising fears that the world’s last great rainforest carbon sink could be ...

"The Yangambi Reserve is situated within the Congo River Basin west of the City of Kisangani in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Secondary forests, semi-deciduous secondary rain forests, rain forests ...