Represent WWF Central Africa region in IRF, GRAA and other ranger related meetings at national, regional and international level. Lead the renewal of the Congo Basin Forest strategy and approach for a ...

By Malavika Vyawahare Cacao cultivation is a major threat to the Congo Basin rainforest, with new research showing just where expanding cultivation could imperil the region’s rich wildlife. “We found ...

The Congo Basin—Earth’s second-largest rainforest and one of its most vital ecosystems—has lost 23 million hectares of forest since Abong’o’s so-called dinosaur encounter, an area ...

The Global Environment Facility (GEF) is a multilateral fund dedicated to confronting biodiversity loss, climate change, pollution, and strains on land and ocean health. Over the past three decades, ...

High-level forest summits are coming up thick and fast. Gabon's One Forest Summit is set to get under way on 1 March, while, in the neighbouring Republic of the Congo, Denis Sassou Nguesso is ...

TSX-listed Ivanhoe Mines, which has successfully developed the large-scale joint venture (JV) Kamoa-Kakula copper complex in ...

Peatlands are important — the UN Environment Programme estimates as much as 600 billion tonnes of carbon are stored there, as decaying organic material gets trapped inside a water-rich environment.

Elsewhere in Africa, Azule Energy is expected to drill the Kianda-1 well in the outboard area of the Congo basin, Angola, in the second half of the year, and there are potential high impact wells ...

There is a “mismatch” between the importance of peatlands and their current level of protection, a new study warns.

Despite claims that official maps are being followed, the ICCN (the body managing Congo’s protected areas ... This destruction threatens not just local biodiversity, but the global climate, as the ...