The Congo Basin, the world’s largest tropical rainforest after the Amazon, is under mounting pressure. The Congo’s vast green ...

In an important boost for the conservation and sustainable management of the Congo basin forests, the total Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) certified area in Cameroon has exceeded one million ...

European governments and multilateral lenders have endorsed a $2.5bn programme to support conservation in the Congo Basin, the world’s second-largest rainforest, in an initiative led by France and ...

More and more logging companies are turning to sustainable forest management practices — something widely ignored in the past. Find out more on how a WWF project in Cameroon is introducing sustainable ...

KINSHASA (Reuters) - Democratic Republic of Congo's biggest logging companies are systematically violating national laws to plunder Congo's forests, undermining efforts to protect the world's second ...

While COP28 in Dubai included a goal to halt and reverse forest loss by the end of the decade, tropical forest nations say they are still not seeing the funding required to keep forests standing. The ...

Cardinal Fridolin Ambongo, Archbishop of Kinshasa, warned at the COP30 climate summit that the Congo Basin forest is critically endangered.

The equivalent of 85 billion tons of carbon dioxide — a huge amount equal to three-quarters of the carbon stored in forests across the contiguous United States — is locked in the living vegetation of ...

When Brazil’s President Lula chose Belém - a coastal city close to the mouth of the Amazon River - to host the UN climate conference of Cop30, he did so to ensure that the world’s largest rainforest ...

A new report shows an increase in estimated forest elephant numbers, but this is a function of better surveying, and the ...

Discover the oldest rainforests on Earth including Daintree, Khao Sok, Taman Negara, and the Congo Rainforest. Learn about ...

African forests are now emitting more carbon dioxide than they absorb, a fundamental shift that will make it more difficult for the world to cut its net emissions to zero. Forests and shrubby ...