000km²—situated in the Congo Basin. The green corridor will follow the course of the Congo River, the world's second largest after the Amazon, which meanders 4,374km in a long arc through central ...

In the Congo River Basin, people who collect bundles of wood to make charcoal are playing a surprisingly large role in the deforestation of a region that rivals the Amazon in importance.

The World Wildlife Fund is a nonprofit known for its international conservation campaigns, from safeguarding huge swaths of the Amazon to rehabilitating the wild tiger population worldwide.

For centuries, at least, the indigenous Bantu peoples of Central, East, and Southern Africa have traded tales of a lumbering creature living in the Congo River Basin. The alleged dinosaur-like ...

On Wednesday, the river reached 6.20 meters (20.34 feet ... Raphael Tshimanga Muamba, director of a Congo Basin research centre in the DRC, called for a fund to help manage natural disasters ...

Home to one of the largest tributaries of the Congo River, the Central African Republic (CAR) and the Democratic Republic of ...

The Congo Basin in central Africa is one of the ... As Africa’s largest river basin, it crosses the borders of multiple countries and is one of the world’s biggest carbon sinks, absorbing ...

J. Stiassny, a fish researcher with the American Museum of Natural History, because of “her outstanding work and commitment to biodiscovery and conservation in the Congo River basin.” ...