Rwanda's Volcanoes National Park has the advantage of easier treks due to less dense vegetation. The Virunga National Park in ...

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

A new study reveals that peatlands—a vital carbon store that many people have never heard of—are dangerously under-protected, ...

Mt Kilimanjaro, the Rwenzori Mountains and Mt Kenya are Africa’s three highest points. Here’s how to stand atop the world’s wildest land.

Conservation projects across the world are reeling from the Trump administration’s abrupt decision to shut down USAID and ...

The U.N. children’s fund on Thursday accused armed men, likely on both sides of the conflict in eastern Congo, of raping ...

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.

When Leopold II, King of Belgium, set about creating his own colony in the Congo, he used elephants - and barbaric cruelty - to clear the impenetrable jungle ...

These soggy spots have been dismissed as inhospitable smudges on the map — even serving as a metaphor for corruption that ...

Report is the first to comprehensively assess the global conservation status of peatlands, which store more carbon than all ...

World Bonobo Day highlights the urgent need to protect bonobos from habitat destruction, poaching, and deforestation.

The world’s peatlands are “dangerously underprotected” despite the colossal amount of climate-heating carbon dioxide already ...