I’m standing waist-deep in a chocolate-hued, jungle-fringed tributary of the Congo River, watching my guide wade further downstream, with his hands cupped to his ears to amplify the sounds of the ...

To date, agricultural expansion in sub-Saharan Africa has mainly been driven by small-scale subsistence farmers. Yet since ...

The Miombo Forest is a vast expanse of lush greenery that stretches across seven countries in Central and West Africa, providing a critical habitat for a wide array of flora and fauna, while also serv ...

Around the same time, bush-meat sales increased in Malabo. As in much of West Africa, bush meat, from wild animals in the forest, particularly from monkeys, is prized as a delicacy, even though it ...

SEE ALSO: The world's fastest land animal is even more threatened ... about half of the estimated 100,000 forest elephants across all of Central Africa. Forest elephants in Gabon's Minkébé ...

From the tiniest microorganisms to the largest mammals, life on Earth thrives through interconnected, mutually beneficial ...

This path, near the Dja river in the south region of Cameroon, lay next to the small village of Bemba. The village folk, Baka ...

The Congo rainforest covers the very heart of Africa. From the crowded, competitive centre of the forest to the open edge of the Atlantic ocean, this is all about carving out space in a crowded world.

Researchers found evidence humans lived at a site in southern Côte d’Ivoire, a region of present-day rainforest, about 150,000 years ago.

There’s also the forest buffalo, the West Africa savanna ... a virus that’s nearly always fatal to hoofed animals—to Africa, and it caused buffalo numbers to crash across the continent.

Researchers policymakers, and civil society gathered at the African Urban Forest Forum in Johannesburg to discuss the role of urban forests in African cities. The forum centered on how trees can ...

Birbaha Hansda, the minister of state for forests who visited the one-of-its-kind open-air zoological park of the region, said they will bring a hippopotamus, some langurs and mandrills here ...