When it comes to Africa’s forest wildlife, few animals capture the imagination like the bongo antelope (Tragelaphus eurycerus). This magnificent creature, with its striking reddish-brown coat, bold ...

Africa’s forests have undergone a shocking reversal, switching from carbon absorbers to carbon emitters after 2010. Researchers found that heavy deforestation in tropical regions has led to massive ...

The increase in greenhouse gases in the environment seems driven by a one-two punch to the environment. Overall, human activity is a driving factor in the increase in carbon in the atmosphere, ...

Africa’s largest elephant DNA study reveals growing genetic isolation as habitats shrink, raising urgent concerns for ...

The largest genomic study of African elephants to date has found that both species - savanna and forest elephants - remain in ...

Study suggests that appetite for bushmeat -- rather than black market for scales to use in traditional Chinese medicine -- is driving West Africa's illegal hunting of one of the world's most ...

Forest elephants’ browsing habits play a vital role in shaping their habitat, allowing large, carbon-dense tree species to thrive. The elephants frequent muddy, mineral-rich clearings called baïs ...

Ernie Dosio, 75, of Lodi, Calif., was hunting a species of antelope in the dense forests of Gabon when his hunting party ...

LANSING, MI – A Michigan zoo is celebrating the arrival of a new species. Staff at Potter Park Zoo in Lansing announced this week the arrival of Elombe, a five-year-old male okapi. He is now visible ...

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Africa's rare forest elephants which play a key role in replenishing the central African rainforests will need almost a century to recover from an onslaught by ivory poachers ...

In 2017, when Vincent Deblauwe joined the Cameroon-based Congo Basin Institute (CBI) to study African ebony (Diospyros crassiflora) — economically valuable pitch-black, dense wood — the Indigenous ...