Africa’s great rainforests were long treated as a quiet ally in the climate fight, soaking up vast quantities of carbon ...

New research shows Africa’s forests now release more carbon than they absorb. This raises global climate risks and calls for urgent action.

A new report shows an increase in estimated forest elephant numbers, but this is a function of better surveying, and the ...

It’s a cool morning in the montane rainforest of western Rwanda’s Nyungwe National Park. Sunbeams stream down from the canopy ...

Populations of the African forest and savanna elephant have declined sharply. The populations of Africa's elephants are now in more danger than they ever have been. The African forest elephant is now ...

Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in zoology from the University of Reading and a master’s in wildlife documentary production from the University of Salford.View full profile Eleanor has an ...

Africa rallies around forest innovation as African Forestry and Wildlife Commission (AFWC25) opens in The Gambia ...

A coalition of African nations has secured new Cites controls on the international trade of hornbills amid concerns over ...

An African forest elephant — nicknamed the "ghost elephant" due to its incredibly infrequent sightings — was spotted in Senegal for the first time in five years earlier this June. Remote camera ...

Humans lived under the leafy canopy of a West African rainforest by at least 150,000 years ago. Previously, the oldest secure evidence for humans living in African rainforests dated to about 18,000 ...

UNICEF estimates that since 2013, some 19,000 children associated with armed groups in the Central African Republic have been ...