An interview with Naftali Honig, director of Projet d’Appui à l’Application de la Loi sur la Faune in Republic of Congo. The bushmeat trade in the Congo basin has been widely publicized but poorly ...

Mining for valuable minerals in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is a major driving factor in the illegal hunting of great apes and other wildlife for food, a new study has found. Authors of ...

The Congo Basin is home to the world’s second-largest rainforest and a unique array of biodiversity. But the ecosystem's remote location cannot protect it from the threat of poaching. Special ...

Dominique Bikaba’s family was once displaced from vibrant rainforests in the Congo Basin to make way for a sweeping national park. Today, a conservationist who also champions the protection of ...

BRAZZAVILLE, Republic of Congo, August 22, 2020 (ENS) – A criminal court in the Republic of Congo has sentenced a notorious poacher and ivory trafficker, Mobanza Mobembo Gérard, alias Guyvanho, to 30 ...

Conservation, like many other areas of our professional, political and social life, is currently adapting to new trends in information and communication technologies. Despite the colossal digital ...

This piece comes to us from Dr. Alain Ondzie, who leads the Wildlife Health Program for Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) Congo. The current COVID-19 outbreak reminds us that zoonotic viruses can ...

A ranger on duty in the vast Kahuzi-Biega National Park, DRCongo, 2018 (Photo by Andrew Kirkby / WCS) KINSHASA, Democratic Republic of Congo, January 22, 2019 (ENS) – Being a conservation ranger is ...

KINSHASA, Congo-- Five Congo park rangers have been found dead and an American journalist has been found in good condition in the Okapi Wildlife Reserve after going missing during a militia attack, a ...

KINSHASA (Reuters) - Armed men attacked a group of journalists and park rangers in a remote east Congo wildlife reserve overnight into Saturday, and an American journalist and three guards were ...

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Heavily armed poachers killed a ranger and two soldiers patrolling in a national park in Congo, a conservation group said Friday. The poachers ambushed the men on Wednesday in ...

Hundreds of thousands of people have been displaced by the humanitarian crisis. Poaching by hungry Congolese as well as by rebels is affecting populations of animals large and small. I'm Madeleine ...