Recently, during the 2026 International Day of Forests, the Nigerian Conservation Foundation (NCF) warned that Nigeria was losing about 400,000 hectares of forest each year due to illegal logging, ...

With African elephants endangered, a UCLA-led study says their decline could ripple from the rainforest to the concert stage—revealing a critical link between the threatened species and pianos and ...

The dietary habits of African forest elephants (Loxodonta cyclotis) promote the survival of large, high wood density trees better at storing carbon. New research finds that forest-dwelling elephants ...

Sheltering an incredible diversity of flora and fauna, including western lowland gorillas and forest elephants, is a vast, ...

Negotiators discussing wildlife trade rules have agreed overwhelmingly to back a proposal that regulates the currently unrestricted trade in all seven species of African forest hornbills. Eight West ...

Climate change and human activities like deforestation are causing more fires in central and west Africa's wet, tropical forests, according to the first-ever comprehensive survey there. The fires have ...

View post: Delta Announces Cancellation of Hundreds of Flights Across 7 States An African forest elephant — nicknamed the “ghost elephant” due to its incredibly infrequent sightings — was spotted in ...

Humans lived under the leafy canopy of a West African rainforest by at least 150,000 years ago. Previously, the oldest secure evidence for humans living in African rainforests dated to about 18,000 ...

Eleanor Scerri receives funding from The Max Planck Society. Eslem Ben Arous does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this ...

The Republic of the Congo became an independent nation on August 15th, 1960. Measuring in at more than two million square kilometers, Central Africa’s Congolian rainforests play host to a truly ...