By Elodie Toto Dominique Bikaba’s family was once displaced from vibrant rainforests in the Congo Basin to make way for a ...

On the morning of May 11, Rachel Masika Baraka, a park ranger, was setting out on a normal day at work in Virunga National Park, the oldest, largest and most biologically diverse park in the ...

In Congo’s Virunga National Park, compounding issues from the pandemic and violent conflict have had a dramatic impact on tourism, leading park administrators to turn toward green-energy-based Bitcoin ...

At least 50 hippos have been killed by anthrax poisoning in Congo's Virunga National Park and have been spotted floating along a major river that feeds one of Africa's great lakes. That's according to ...

BENI, Democratic Republic of Congo (Reuters) -Threatened by armed conflict, volcanic activity and rampant deforestation, Africa's oldest national park is turning to a new product to raise its profile ...

Ndakasi, a mountain gorilla who famously posed for a selfie with a ranger at Congo's Virunga National Park, has died at 14 after a long illness, the park said. KINSHASA, Congo — Ndakasi, a mountain ...

Six rangers at a prominent national park in Congo are dead and another was badly injured in a horrific ambush carried out Sunday by “armed assailants,” park officials announced. Authorities did not ...

The tropical rainforest of the Congo basin is the world’s second-largest. (The Amazon is slightly bigger, but far better studied.) Via the Congo river, water drains into the Atlantic largely from six ...

The Republic of Congo has declared a new national park that conservationists hope with protect a core population of western lowland gorillas, a critically endangered species, as well as other ...

KINSHASA, Congo – Ndakasi, a mountain gorilla who famously posed for a selfie with a ranger at Congo’s Virunga National Park, has died at 14 after a long illness, the park said. “It is with heartfelt ...

KINSHASA, CongoKINSHASA, Congo — Ndakasi, a mountain gorilla who famously posed for a selfie with a ranger at Congo’s Virunga National Park, has died at 14 after a long illness, the park said. “It is ...