After more than a century of plunder and strife, under tyrants as diverse as King Leopold II of Belgium and Mobutu Sese Seko, ...

Glide above the immense and mysterious landscapes of the Congo River Basin with this breathtaking drone video. Witness the ...

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 ...

High-definition trail cameras at a park in the Republic of the Congo reveal elusive rainforest animals. A photo shows two African forest elephants. Photo from Will Burrard-Lucas and Wildlife ...

The decline of the forest, following extractive work, deforestation, tree cutting, agricultural expansion, illegal logging, ...

The world’s only living relative of the giraffe has received its strongest global protection yet. Conservationists say the ...

More than 145,000 African forest elephants roam the rainforests of Africa, according to a recent population assessment.

Introduction / Barry Hewlett -- Cultural diversity of African Pygmies / Serge Bahuchet -- Population genetics of Central African Pygmies and non-Pygmies / Paul Verdu -- On Late Holocene population ...