A century-old palm oil business in the DRC, Plantations et Huileries du Congo (PHC), has exposed the local population to tons...

The tropical forests and peatlands contain Earth’s rare “irrecoverable carbon” stores  Arlington, VA (November 29, 2021) – The peatlands...

Expelled from the forest at the arrival of the logging company Pallisco, the forest indigenous Baka of Bidjoumam are...

At least 150 people have died in hazardous pits abandoned by the gold mines that are decimating Cameroon’s forests....

The second-largest world’s rainforest lost more than 600,000 hectares of primary forest in 2020, which is a 9 percent...

Environmental journalists in four African countries invited to apply for eight-week online course. Climate change and urban sprawl is...

Wildlife populations have fallen by more than two-thirds in less than 50 years, according to a major report by...

In southern Cameroon, Indigenous Bagyeli communities and their Bantu neighbors take legal action against the Head of State’s decision,...

The Kigali government is the first in Africa to strengthen its commitment to emissions cuts by 2030 and ramp...

Poaching in Akagera National Park (ANP) has gone down significantly in recent years, a change related to the improved...

Researchers link exposure to mining pollutants to greatly increased risk of conditions such as spina bifida and limb abnormalities...

Sangha Department, Republic of Congo. Pokola lies 800 kilometers north of Congo’s capital, Brazzaville, on the left bank of...

At least 12 rangers have been killed by suspected members of a Rwandan rebel group in the Virunga National...

Four years after it was launched, the Lom Pangar hydropower dam in Cameroon is full of floating wood and...

Virunga National Park in the Democratic Republic of Congo shut its doors to tourists this week in an attempt...

The World Rainforest Movement (WRM) has accused Singapore-based agribusiness company Olam of making meaningless “zero deforestation” pledges about a...

Goma, voices rise again to say no to oil development in Virunga and Salonga National Parks. Gathered at the...

Images of wild western lowland gorillas have been captured by camera traps deep in the jungles of central mainland...

The effects of commercial logging, mining and farming can ripple beyond the boundaries of the operations, leading to the...

The Pulitzer Center is pleased to announce, as part of the Rainforest Journalism Fund, that we are now accepting applications...

KRIBI, Cameroon — Alarm flashed through Cameroon’s conservation community in mid-September 2019, when images of untidy rows of black...

Alors que de nombreux pays, particulièrement ceux qui sont le plus vulnérables aux impacts climatiques, s’attendaient à des négociations...

Illegal logging, deforestation, land grabbing, pollution and climate change – questions of life and death for the Amazon people...

Cameroon is touting the construction of solar energy in electricity-starved rural communities across the country as part of the...

Recent seizures of pangolin scales and meat in Malaysia, Hong Kong, Vietnam, and Uganda highlight the poaching crisis and...

With a 145,500-square-kilometer swath of peatlands in Central Africa newly identified as an important storage of carbon, researchers, decision-makers...

In the Democratic Republic of Congo’s (DRC) northwestern city of Mbandaka, health workers spent recent months racing to contain...

Rodrique Ngono, 49, farmer and hunter in Miatta village, situated on the southern periphery of the Dja Wildlife Reserve...

As Cameroon takes on rising temperatures, floods, droughts, and other climate challenges, the government is partnering with major cities in...

After months of tracking one of the most notorious ivory poachers in the northern Republic of Congo, authorities finally...

On a potholed dirt road cutting through thick sun-dappled foliage, hundreds of miles from the Congolese capital of Kinshasa,...

The Virunga National Park announces with regret the death of Park Ranger Faustin Biriko Nzabakurikiza which occured on April...

REDD+ pilot projects implemented in Mai-Ndombe province, in the west of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), can harm...

Soaked to the shoulders, Christelle Nguizi, ranger, pulls herself through another reed-filled marsh. Ten days into a patrol in...

Seed multiplication farms are helping farmers in the southwest region of Cameroon fight climate change effects and poverty thanks...

A study in the northern Republic of Congo found that gorillas and chimpanzees both became scarcer at the onset...

Scientist have confirmed the presence of peatlands in the Democratic Republic of Congo after an expedition in the village...

Molly Bergen recently traveled to three countries to document field activities of the Central Africa Regional Program for the Environment (CARPE),...

Akame Clovis 43, a forest guard with the Ministry of Forestry and Wildlife marches through the Mefou National Park...

The Government of Gabon and the Central African Forest Initiative (CAFI) on Tuesday, June 27, 2017, signed a Letter...

Sorry, this entry is only available in French. Le Gabon possède à lui seul treize parcs nationaux où vivent...

Sorry, this entry is only available in French. Plutôt ce mois-ci, le Représentant spécial du secrétaire général des Nations...

Sorry, this entry is only available in French. L’ancien peuple nomade, forcé à la sédentarisation et chassé de forêts...

Sorry, this entry is only available in French. Les parquets généraux de Kinshasa, capitale de la République Démocratique du...

Sorry, this entry is only available in French. Suite à une étude de faisabilité réalisée par la Banque Mondiale,...

Sorry, this entry is only available in French. Il y a quelques années au Rwanda, les villageois vivant à...

A report has found that the Democratic Republic of Congo is likely to suffer financial losses and continuing energy...

At the World Economic Forum, Norway announced it will set up a fund to make small-scale farmers more productive...

Sorry, this entry is only available in French. Si l’on considère les statistiques actuelles, la RDC court le risque...

Sorry, this entry is only available in French. L’Assemblée générale des Nations a été, le jeudi 23 mars, la...

For all the economic benefits the palm oil industry has brought to Indonesia and Malaysia, which together produce more...

Stepping into the forest in Djoameodjoh, a small locality in Lomie in the Upper Nyong division of the East...

Sorry, this entry is only available in French. Le moratoire sur la suspension de l’octroi des allocations forestières en...

Sorry, this entry is only available in French. Les forêts de la partie australe du Congo Brazzaville, environ 4...

Bertoua, Eastern Cameroon — As night falls, scores of timber trucks line up at a weighing station outside the...

Sorry, this entry is only available in French. Lancée en 2013 dans les départements de la Sangha et de...

Andrew Kombe of Penja village located about 350 kilometers from Cameroon’s capital, Yaounde happily combs his four hectare Penja...

Central Africa is often shrouded in equatorial clouds, especially during the rainy season. Fjallraven Kanken No.2 When our Dove...

The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) lost an average of 0.57 million hectares of forest per year, and the...

Sorry, this entry is only available in French. Le Centre de recherche forestière internationale (CIFOR), qui travaille dans la...

InfoCongo invites journalists, designers, developers, cartographers and data experts to submit a proposal for our stories, maps, and data...

Sorry, this entry is only available in French. Avec la célébration de la journée mondiale de l’environnement, le 5...

Sitting in front of his mud house in Pangar village, one of the forest communities in the East region,...

WWF statement as G20 Leaders’ Summit ends in Hamburg today Hamburg – As the G20 Leaders’ Summit concludes, WWF...

The results of WWF’s biggest REDD+ (Reduction of Emissions from Deforestation & Forest Degradation) project in Africa in the...

Gabonese president, Ali Bongo Ondimba has announced that his country will create 20 marine protected areas. This consist of...

Forests are central to the Climate Change Agreement signed in December 2015 by more than 190 countries and so...

The first national forest biomass map of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is now available. The map was...

The tusks were stocked in a metallic seal and concealed in the back booth of a car. Said to...

Figures released by the CITES MIKE Program (Monitoring the Illegal Killing of Elephants) on the 2016 trends in the...

Cameroon has committed to restoring over 12 million hectares of deforested and degraded land by 2030 as part of...

The global development community celebrates World Pangolin Day on Saturday, February 18, 2017, under the theme “Together let’s protect...

The government of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has received millions of dollars aimed at stopping deforestation and...

There is a growing network of logging roads in Cameroon’s eastern region, particularly along national parks and forest reserves....

Muyeji Freddy and his team have scoured the bush for hours, but they haven’t found what they’re looking for....

Full year figures for 2016 confirm it has just edged ahead of 2015 as the world’s warmest year. Data...

Carbon-rich peatlands could store three years’ worth of world’s total fossil fuel emissions, say scientists Scientists have discovered the...

The United Nations Climate Change Summit ended in the Moroccan city of Marrakech on Friday, November 18, 2016, with...

In 2016 the Ministry of Mines and Energy issued at least seven permits that allow companies to prospect or...

Survival International has learned that an elephant-hunting safari operation jointly owned by a French billionaire has been implicated in...

A non-binding call for the closure of all domestic ivory markets has been endorsed by delegates at the United...

The Great Green Wall project designed to plant trees to stop the advancement of the Sahara Desert, now presents...

Over 1,800 great apes were seized from an illicit live traffic that went undetected for over a decade but...

The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is ranked 6th in tree cover loss, accordingly to latest satellite data from...

Three out of every four African wildlife ranger say they have faced life threatening situations by community members or...

Sorry, this entry is only available in French. 7 ans de négociations auront été nécessaire pour signer un accord...

On the southwestern flank of Virunga, a protected national park in the Democratic Republic of Congo, there was once...

More than 500 participants are gathered in Kigali, Rwanda, to discuss the problems facing the Congo Basin and to...

Sorry, this entry is only available in French. Adopter des mesures particulières pour sécuriser et améliorer les rémunérations et...

Sorry, this entry is only available in French. « Préserver et promouvoir la biodiversité pour les générations futures »,...

Self-driven small scale irrigation schemes near river banks and running streams are helping farmers in Akum, and Santa in...

Most oil palm is grown in areas that were once species-rich and carbon-rich tropical forests, thanks to the fact...

Journalists from six Central African countries gathered in the Cameroonian capital of Yaoundé in late April to learn how...

Sorry, this entry is only available in French. Deux pays de la Région du Bassin du Congo, la République...

As locally dominant land-use option, sport hunting has shown a declining profitability in Cameroon over the last decade, mainly...

Sorry, this entry is only available in French. Deux gardes du parc national des Virunga sont tombés lors des...

Tout a commencé lorsqu’à la fin de la guerre civile, les anciens miliciens se sont convertis en bucherons et...

Sorry, this entry is only available in French. La Commission des Forêts d’Afrique Centrale, COMIFAC en sigle, est au...

« La conservation de cette forêt se fera avec nous, ou elle ne se fera pas », dit Baati...