In Cameroon, illegal logging of high-value timber harms indigenous…
Indigenous people living in forest communities are now facing the worrying consequences of illegal logging when their medicine sources...
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RDC-CAFI : la partie congolaise tient à s’impliquer dans…
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Wildlife in ‘catastrophic decline’ due to human destruction, scientists…
Wildlife populations have fallen by more than two-thirds in less than 50 years, according to a major report by... -
Rwanda’s Akagera park thrives thanks to community-led anti-poaching drive
Poaching in Akagera National Park (ANP) has gone down significantly in recent years, a change related to the improved... -
Filled with Deadwood, Lom Pangar Dam Threatens Climate
Four years after it was launched, the Lom Pangar hydropower dam in Cameroon is full of floating wood and... -
National parks in Africa shutter over COVID-19 threat to…
Virunga National Park in the Democratic Republic of Congo shut its doors to tourists this week in an attempt... -
DRC: Environmental associations say no to oil development in…
Goma, voices rise again to say no to oil development in Virunga and Salonga National Parks. Gathered at the... -
Camera traps confirm presence of lowland gorillas in central…
Images of wild western lowland gorillas have been captured by camera traps deep in the jungles of central mainland... -
Call for Applications: Congo Basin Rainforest Journalism Fund Convening
The Pulitzer Center is pleased to announce, as part of the Rainforest Journalism Fund, that we are now accepting applications... -
NGOs reject new oil palm plantation in southern Cameroon
KRIBI, Cameroon — Alarm flashed through Cameroon’s conservation community in mid-September 2019, when images of untidy rows of black... -
Blog: The Amazon and the Congo Basin: the same…
Illegal logging, deforestation, land grabbing, pollution and climate change – questions of life and death for the Amazon people... -
Multiple, Massive Pangolin Seizures Highlight Poaching Crisis
Recent seizures of pangolin scales and meat in Malaysia, Hong Kong, Vietnam, and Uganda highlight the poaching crisis and... -
Blog: What’s threatening the Congo Basin’s peatlands?
With a 145,500-square-kilometer swath of peatlands in Central Africa newly identified as an important storage of carbon, researchers, decision-makers... -
As Chinese Plantations Expand, Communities, Wildlife Feel the Pressure
Rodrique Ngono, 49, farmer and hunter in Miatta village, situated on the southern periphery of the Dja Wildlife Reserve... -
A Green Push Against Deforestation, Climate Change in Cameroon
As Cameroon takes on rising temperatures, floods, droughts, and other climate challenges, the government is partnering with major cities in... -
Justice for Elephants
After months of tracking one of the most notorious ivory poachers in the northern Republic of Congo, authorities finally... -
Another Ranger Killed in Virunga
The Virunga National Park announces with regret the death of Park Ranger Faustin Biriko Nzabakurikiza which occured on April... -
Maps Help Distinguish between cyclical farming and deforestation in…
How do you distinguish between cyclical farming and deforestation in the Congo Basin? A new Global Forest Watch map can... -
New study: Gorillas fare better in logged forests than…
A study in the northern Republic of Congo found that gorillas and chimpanzees both became scarcer at the onset... -
Scientists confirm presence of peatlands in Democratic Republic of…
Scientist have confirmed the presence of peatlands in the Democratic Republic of Congo after an expedition in the village... -
Blog: A River Lined with Smoke: Charcoal and Forest…
Molly Bergen recently traveled to three countries to document field activities of the Central Africa Regional Program for the Environment (CARPE),... -
New Mobile App to Fight Deforestation Launched
Akame Clovis 43, a forest guard with the Ministry of Forestry and Wildlife marches through the Mefou National Park... -
Renforcer la lutte contre le braconnage dans les parcs…
Sorry, this entry is only available in French. Le Gabon possède à lui seul treize parcs nationaux où vivent... -
RDC: l’électricité réduit la pression sur le parc des…
Sorry, this entry is only available in French. Inaugurée le 16 décembre 2015, la centrale hydroélectrique de Matebe fournit... -
Avec les Pygmées de RDC, qui survivent et meurent…
Sorry, this entry is only available in French. L’ancien peuple nomade, forcé à la sédentarisation et chassé de forêts... -
Au Rwanda, les riverains des parcs touchent 5% des…
Sorry, this entry is only available in French. Il y a quelques années au Rwanda, les villageois vivant à... -
Inga 3 Dam Risks Plunging DRC Deeper Into Debt
A report has found that the Democratic Republic of Congo is likely to suffer financial losses and continuing energy... -
$400 Million For Rainforests
At the World Economic Forum, Norway announced it will set up a fund to make small-scale farmers more productive... -
Selon WWF-RDC, le pays risque de perdre ses espèces…
Sorry, this entry is only available in French. Si l’on considère les statistiques actuelles, la RDC court le risque... -
La réserve du Dja risque de perdre son statut…
Sorry, this entry is only available in French. D’ici 2018, si rien n’est fait, l’Unesco pourrait résilier son contrat... -
Mitigating Deforestation Risks of Palm Oil Expansion in Africa
For all the economic benefits the palm oil industry has brought to Indonesia and Malaysia, which together produce more... -
Communities Demand Clarity on Forest Revenue
Stepping into the forest in Djoameodjoh, a small locality in Lomie in the Upper Nyong division of the East... -
Sarambwe, la réserve qui risque de perdre ses gorilles
Sorry, this entry is only available in French. Cette réserve naturelle des gorilles se trouve dans le secteur Sarambwe,... -
Illegal Logging Drives Deforestation in Cameroon
Bertoua, Eastern Cameroon — As night falls, scores of timber trucks line up at a weighing station outside the... -
Swapping Coffee, Cocoa for Pepper to Adapt to Extreme…
Andrew Kombe of Penja village located about 350 kilometers from Cameroon’s capital, Yaounde happily combs his four hectare Penja... -
What Satellites Capture with a Clear View of DRC
Central Africa is often shrouded in equatorial clouds, especially during the rainy season. Fjallraven Kanken No.2 When our Dove... -
Deforestation Continues, Policies Poorly Implemented in DRC
The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) lost an average of 0.57 million hectares of forest per year, and the... -
Nouveau projet pour soutenir les communautés forestières en RDC
Sorry, this entry is only available in French. Le Centre de recherche forestière internationale (CIFOR), qui travaille dans la... -
Lac Edouard : la pêche sauvage et le braconnage…
Sorry, this entry is only available in French. Autour du lac Edouard, les enclaves de pêche congolaises tarissent les... -
Apply Now for Grant to Cover Stories, Maps and…
InfoCongo invites journalists, designers, developers, cartographers and data experts to submit a proposal for our stories, maps, and data... -
Blog: How Artificial Intelligence Helped Us Predict Forest Loss…
Compared with the planet’s other large tracts of tropical forests, the forests in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)... -
Cameroon’s Forest People Bear Hidden Cost of Government’s Ambitious…
Sitting in front of his mud house in Pangar village, one of the forest communities in the East region,... -
RDC: des crocodiles déstabilisent les pêcheurs et les riverains
Depuis 2016, la population des crocodiles, en hausse dans le territoire de Fizi dans la province du Sud Kivu... -
Gabon to Create 20 Marine Protected Areas
Gabonese president, Ali Bongo Ondimba has announced that his country will create 20 marine protected areas. This consist of... -
How is the Congo Basin Affected by US Withdrawal…
Forests are central to the Climate Change Agreement signed in December 2015 by more than 190 countries and so... -
DRC Gets its First Forest Carbon Map
The first national forest biomass map of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is now available. The map was... -
Three Arrested for Trafficking 159 Ivory Tusks
The tusks were stocked in a metallic seal and concealed in the back booth of a car. Said to... -
Poaching Still a Risk to African Elephants
Figures released by the CITES MIKE Program (Monitoring the Illegal Killing of Elephants) on the 2016 trends in the... -
Cameroon to Restore 12 Million Hectares of Forest
Cameroon has committed to restoring over 12 million hectares of deforested and degraded land by 2030 as part of... -
Celebrating Pangolins
The global development community celebrates World Pangolin Day on Saturday, February 18, 2017, under the theme “Together let’s protect... -
Forest protection funds flow to DRC despite ‘illegal’ logging…
The government of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has received millions of dollars aimed at stopping deforestation and... -
The Road to Destruction?
There is a growing network of logging roads in Cameroon’s eastern region, particularly along national parks and forest reserves.... -
Chinese Demand for Bloodwood Cuts Into Congo’s Ecosystem
Muyeji Freddy and his team have scoured the bush for hours, but they haven’t found what they’re looking for.... -
World’s Largest Tropical Peatland Found in Congo Basin
Carbon-rich peatlands could store three years’ worth of world’s total fossil fuel emissions, say scientists Scientists have discovered the... -
Is Development and Conservation Reconcilable?
Development and conservation are perhaps the two most sought-after outcomes in sustainable interventions in the Congo Basin. Often, both goals... -
Mixed Reaction to Outcome of COP22
The United Nations Climate Change Summit ended in the Moroccan city of Marrakech on Friday, November 18, 2016, with... -
Billionaire’s elephant-hunting safaris implicated in “Pygmy” abuses
Survival International has learned that an elephant-hunting safari operation jointly owned by a French billionaire has been implicated in... -
Closure of Domestic Ivory Markets Good News for Congo…
A non-binding call for the closure of all domestic ivory markets has been endorsed by delegates at the United... -
Africa’s Great Green Wall to Fight Climate Migration, Terrorism
The Great Green Wall project designed to plant trees to stop the advancement of the Sahara Desert, now presents... -
True Extent of Illegal Trade in Apes Revealed
Over 1,800 great apes were seized from an illicit live traffic that went undetected for over a decade but... -
DRC Ranked 6th in Tree Cover Loss
The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is ranked 6th in tree cover loss, accordingly to latest satellite data from... -
Poaching Blamed for worst African elephant losses
Africa’s overall elephant population has seen the worst declines in 25 years, mainly due to poaching over the past... -
Virunga’s Charcoal Cartel
On the southwestern flank of Virunga, a protected national park in the Democratic Republic of Congo, there was once... -
Major Congo Basin forest conference Underway in Rwanda
More than 500 participants are gathered in Kigali, Rwanda, to discuss the problems facing the Congo Basin and to... -
Bridging gaps critical to increasing the appeal of data…
Journalists from six Central African countries gathered in the Cameroonian capital of Yaoundé in late April to learn how... -
Does trophy hunting remain a profitable business model for…
As locally dominant land-use option, sport hunting has shown a declining profitability in Cameroon over the last decade, mainly... -
RDC : Les pygmées se lèvent pour défendre leurs…
« La conservation de cette forêt se fera avec nous, ou elle ne se fera pas », dit Baati... -
When Pygmies Stand up for Rights
“The conservation of this forest will be done with us, or it won’t be done at all,” says Baati... -
UK sanctions traders for illegal Cameroon timber imports
British authorities have sanctioned more than a dozen UK importers sourcing wood from Cameroon. Illegal logging is a growing... -
Eavesdropping on Cameroon’s poachers to save endangered primates
Cameroon’s Korup National Park is home to elephants, chimpanzees, red colobus monkeys, drill, and a myriad of noisy species,... -
15 000 hectares de forêts brûlées depuis janvier 2016…
Sorry, this entry is only available in French. Plus de 15 000 hectares de forêts dans le Bassin du... -
Raging Fires Spotted in Congo’s Rainforest
Major wildfires have been detected in the Congo Basin rainforests with potentially devastating effects on surrounding ecosystems and biodiversity.... -
Consumption Patterns Decimating Africa’s wildlife
Wildlife in Africa and Cameroon, in particular, is under severe threat as appetite for snakes, pangolins, monkeys, ape, and... -
Outcome of the Kigali Congo Basin Forest Partnership Meeting
A release sent out Tuesday, Nike Pas Cher December 06, NMD 2016 details out the major conclusions of the... -
Reflecting on 20 Years of US Investment in Central…
Actors of the Central African Program for the Environment (CARPE), have met on the sidelines of the World Conservation... -
Four out of six great apes one step away…
The Eastern Gorilla – the largest living primate – has been listed as Critically Endangered due to illegal hunting,... -
Cameroonian Farmers Drag Palm Oil Company to Court
SG Sustainable Oils Cameroon PLC (SGSOC), a palm oil developer in the Southwest Region of Cameroon has been dragged... -
67% des vertébrés pourront disparaître d’ici 2020
Sorry, this entry is only available in French. Les populations des vertébrés (poissons, oiseaux, Nike Internationalist mammifères, amphibiens et... -
Cameroun : Les riverains à la base de la…
Sorry, this entry is only available in French. Les données fournies par l’Atlas forestier interactif du Cameroun sont sans... -
Logging roads have long-lasting impacts on forests
When logging roads appear in forests, they are often spotlighted by conservationists as harbingers of ecological harm to come.... -
Two Kyagurilo Gorillas Injured in Altercation Between Groups
Gorilla Doctors veterinarians in Bwindi National Park are keeping a close eye on two gorillas from the Kyaguliro group... -
Former Norwegian Minister Takes over at UNEP
Erik Solheim, a former Minister of Environment and International Development in Norway, began his tenure today as Executive Director of... -
Towards the Protection of Itombwe Reserve in DRC
The Itombwe Reserve in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), one of Africa’s most biodiverse sites, had its boundaries... -
Norway’s Zero Deforestation Commitment Good News for Congo Basin
Increased demand for tropical timber from global north countries fuels deforestation in the Congo Basin. Recently, Norway’s Parliament took... -
Soccer Star Stands with Elephants
Cote D’Ivoire’s soccer star, Yaya Toure has thrown his full support to a new campaign to end illegal wildlife... -
Who is really bearing the cost of REDD+?
A forthcoming study brings a reality check on who is footing the bill for REDD+. Local and state government institutions... -
Africa’s palm oil surge builds in Cameroon
Tucked amongst the hilltops of Yaoundé are the signs of a country and an economy on the move. Cameroonians... -
Two Rangers Killed in Virunga Park
Two rangers have been killed in the Virunga National Park in the East of the Democratic Republic of Congo... -
Deep Concerns Over DRC’s Plans to Reopen Forests to…
Conservation organizations have expressed deep concerns with the DRC’s government plans to lift the moratorium on the allocation of... -
What’s the Plight and Exact Population of Central African…
Understanding lives of marginalized indigenous hunter-gatherers is the first step to defending them against loss of rights and access... -
“Good for Growth”, Africa’s Expanding Road Network May Hurt…
Many new road and rail ‘‘development corridors’’ planned to crisscross Africa in the name of economic development could destroy... -
Suspend all Oil-Related Activities in Virunga National Park, Gov’ts…
The government of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Uganda have been told to refrain from granting any... -
How China Fuels Deforestation In Nigeria, West Africa
Corruption by local officials and sharp practices by Chinese businessmen drive a thriving illegal trade in timber from Nigeria... -
InfoCongo Feature Stories fund Launched
As part of the InfoCongo initiative we set a fund that will last for the next 3 years to... -
Global Witness Documents Stories of Men and Women Working…
The countryside in Eastern Congo is scarred with mines of tin, tungsten, tantalum and gold – precious minerals which... -
China’s demand for rosewood is destroying forests in Southeast…
China is the largest global consumer of rosewood and skyrocketing demand over the past decade and a half is... -
A Tipping Point For Humanity?
The negotiations at COP21 in Paris have not just been about climate change, but about our ability to act... -
Mixed Reaction to Paris Agreement
Kumi Naidoo, Executive Director, Greenpeace International: The wheel of climate action turns slowly, but in Paris it has turned.... -
Paris Must Not Fail, Warns African Civil Society
With less than 48 to the official end of the United Nations-brokered climate talks here at Le Bouget, Paris,... -
Stop Support to Industrial Logging in Congo Basin, France…
A coalition of non-governmental organizations has called on France to end support to industrial logging in the Congo Basin....