For decades, the Congo Basin was largely invisible to climate science. Now, a new generation of Central African researchers ...

The second largest, the Congo Basin rainforest in Central Africa, covers 780,000 square miles. This rainforest spans six countries: Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Central African Republic ...

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

“Tropical rainforests don’t give up their secrets ... Nouabalé-Ndoki National Park is in the northern Republic of the Congo, a central African country bordering Angola, Cameroon, the Central ...

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roam Central Africa’s rainforests, holding them intact. African forest elephants (Loxodonta cyclotis), Nouabale-Ndoki NP. Image courtesy of Will Burrard-Lucas/WCS. Although the international ...

HABITAT: Forest elephants occupy the rainforests of West and Central Africa. RANGE: The majority of remaining forest elephant populations occur in Central Africa, in the countries of Gabon, Democratic ...

A study published Wednesday shows that as early as 150,000 years ago, some of them lived deep in a West African rainforest. “What we’re seeing is that, from a very early stage, ecological ...

A photo shows the leopard walking through a rainforest path ... National Park is in the northern Republic of the Congo, a central African country bordering Angola, Cameroon, the Central African ...

But a new study published this week found some of our ancestors managed to survive in a tropical rainforest in West Africa much earlier than was known. A team of researchers found evidence that ...