Are Indigenous people inherently better at caring for natural areas, or does nature need to be protected from them? Both of these reductive stereotypes are often repeated, but neither gives the whole ...

While most people think of the Amazon when discussing tropical rainforests, there's another colossal green giant quietly doing incredible work for our planet. The Congo Basin rainforest spans six ...

The Republic of Congo had been protecting about half of its dense rainforests via the Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation (REDD+) framework. In exchange, the country is ...

MANGA, Democratic Republic of Congo (Reuters) - As world leaders haggle over a plan to fight global warming, tribes in Congo's rainforest have armed themselves with satellite GPS devices in the hope ...

The Congo Basin's hunter-gatherer people have the secret to living well with the forest. While doing fieldwork in 2020, I remember walking with Indigenous elders Ferdinand Mbita and Félix Mangombe up ...

Rainforests cover less than 10 per cent of Earth’s surface but support more than half of all known species. Here’s why World ...

When Brazil's President Lula chose Belém - a coastal city close to the mouth of the Amazon River - to host the UN climate conference of Cop30, he did so to ensure that the world's largest rainforest ...

DRC’s forests are prized by buyers of forest concessions — some for logging, others for contested carbon-offset programmes – Copyright KCNA VIA KNS/AFP STR The ...