The Okapi Wildlife Reserve occupies about one-fifth of the Ituri forest in the north-east of the Democratic ... as refuge for the tropical rainforest. To the north of the Reserve, the granite rocky ...

The Okapi Wildlife Reserve covers 14,000 square kilometers (5,405 square miles) of Congo Basin rainforest ... Deforestation is concentrated along the Ituri river and National Route 4, in the ...

In the heart of eastern Congo's lush Ituri province, a Chinese mining operation ... Conservation groups like the Rainforest Foundation UK are sounding the alarm. "It is alarming that a semi ...

the okapi, a forest giraffe, of which it holds some 15% of the world’s remaining 30,000. It’s part of the Congo Basin rainforest — the world’s second-biggest — and a vital carbon sink ...