such as Gabon and the Republic of the Congo, where populations have stabilized in recent years. Even still, African forest elephants now inhabit just a quarter of their historic range.

than other elephant species, making it more difficult for their populations to recover and stabilize. Without them the forests of the Congo Basin would look very different The survival of the African ...

Forest elephants are uniquely adapted to the dense ... Elephants in Democratic Republic of Congo has not faired well over the time,' Professor Wittemyer told MailOnline. 'Kenya, Sudan, and ...

elephant and leopard. The chimpanzee, recently shown to be the potential source of the HIV 1 virus in humans, is also endangered. Its forest home is being logged and it continues to be hunted and sold ...

RANGE: The majority of remaining forest elephant populations occur in Central Africa, in the countries of Gabon, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Republic of Congo, Central Africa Republic and ...

Moo Deng, whose name means “bouncy pork”, shot to fame soon after she was born in July this year, thanks to viral videos that ...

Nouabalé-Ndoki National Park is jointly managed by the government of the Republic of Congo and WCS. The park is home to ...

As nations meet in Colombia for the COP16 summit under the U.N. Convention on Biological Diversity, African bishops and other ...

Following elephant tracks, we plunge into the forest. We pass towering ... farmers had covered large parts of Gabon and northern Congo in palm groves. “Central Africa,” White says, “probably ...

Forest elephant bull Gamba ... Democratic Republic of Congo, Africa, Critically endangered. Image courtesy of Eric Baccega.

Therefore, deforestation of the Congo rainforest, the second largest in the world, is pushing many animal species to extinction. Data shows that mountain gorillas, bush elephants and okapi that ...

Deaths, mass rapes, kidnappings for ransom, displacements, money laundering and costly environmental harm are the results of the violent competition for natural resources in eastern Democratic ...