The spider, hunters of insects, small reptiles, and even birds. But what if I told you that there were spiders big enough to ...

In East Africa, a lack of border controls and widespread fraud facilitate the illegal timber trade, which has become increasingly mainstream.

In a Swiss pine forest, the treetops are being sprayed with mist in a bid to discover the effect that drier or wetter air has ...

Analysis - The government of the Democratic Republic of Congo passed a law in January 2025 to lead efforts to establish the largest tropical forest reserve in the world. It will be set up as a 2 ...

National Intelligence Service (NIS) Director-General Noordin Haji went emotional before MPs on Monday, lamenting how inadequate funding of Kenya Defence Forces (KDF) to enable acquisition of modern ...

The Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) (www.Africa.FSC.org) Congo Basin office is delighted to announce that Exploitation Gabonaise de Grumes (EGG), a significant and long-standing player in Gabon's ...

The Congo Basin forms part of a global trio of tropical rainforests - along with the Amazon and Borneo-Mekong regions - which together account for 80% of the world’s remaining tropical forests ...

Yet the global thirst for minerals, timber and farmland looms large over the region's forests - and only looks likely to grow, placing the Congo Basin and its ecosystems at great risk.

DRC’s forests are vast and valuable. Two-thirds of the country is covered in forest, which forms part of the Congo Basin, home to the world’s second-largest rainforest. Over half the country’s ...

Data from Global Forest Watch, an initiative that uses satellites to track deforestation, showed that annual tree cover loss in Virunga rose over 22% to 6,804 hectares in 2021 and a further 7,255 ...

The heart of the forest The Ruki River lies at the centre of the Congo Basin. It drains a uniquely homogeneous 188,800km² of pristine lowland and swamp forests.

Conserving the forests of the Congo Basin is key to achieving international climate and biodiversity goals. The world’s second largest tropical forest is located in the Congo Basin, spanning six ...