As Mongabay deepens its reporting across Africa’s biodiversity and climate challenges, award-winning senior science ...

Copince Ngoma, a member of the Bakouele Indigenous community, has relied on the lush green Congo Basin rainforest his whole ...

Cameroon is pursuing a 640,000-tonne cocoa production target by 2030 through farm intensification rather than forest ...

Angola’s vast highland wetlands feed rivers that deliver freshwater to millions. They just gained global recognition that could help keep it that way.

Abuses against civilians by government forces and armed groups have become rampant in the conflict in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.

The Washington Accords, signed in December 2025 between the Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda under US mediation, promised an end to the devastating armed conflict in eastern Congo through troop ...

For months, people feared an onward assault on nearby Uvira, which had become an important stronghold for the Congolese army and pro-government militias (known as Wazalendo), and an entry point for ...

By Milliam MurigiKenya’s Mau Forest Complex and Kakamega Forest are set to benefit from new climate financing under the Congo Basin Blue Fund.This is a financing mechanism aimed at protecting the ...

The “Roof of Africa” is the continent’s most climbed peak—which often means trekking in the company of crowds. These five climbs offer under-the-radar alternatives with challenging trails and wild ...

Following years of rigorous scientific research and biodiversity monitoring contribution led by the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) Forest Center, the Emerald Forest Reserve ...

Daniel C. Miller, the Coyle Mission Collegiate Associate Professor at the University of Notre Dame’s Keough School of Global Affairs. For decades, global efforts to combat climate change and protect ...

A pair of mountain gorilla twins were born to a 22-year-old ape in a remote forest in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. The birth was discovered on January 3 by conservationists at Virunga ...