Sections of a renowned peatland tropical forest in the Congo Basin that plays a crucial role in Africa's climate system go up for oil and gas auction in Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of the ...

Years of civil strife in eastern Congo have decimated the habitat of the eastern lowland gorilla, cutting the apes’ population by more than 70 percent in the past decade, experts said Wednesday. With ...

National Geographic Explorer Brent Stirton has photographed life inside Virunga National Park over the course of nearly two ...

KINSHASA, Congo -- Farmers have overrun thousands of acres in Congo's oldest national park, the latest threat to more than half the world's 700 remaining mountain gorillas, conservationists and park ...