An interview with Naftali Honig, director of Projet d’Appui à l’Application de la Loi sur la Faune in Republic of Congo. The bushmeat trade in the Congo basin has been widely publicized but poorly ...

Mining for valuable minerals in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is a major driving factor in the illegal hunting of great apes and other wildlife for food, a new study has found. Authors of ...

KINSHASA, Congo – Wildlife officials in volatile eastern Congo on Tuesday buried the bodies of eight people killed in an attack on rangers working at a large national park. Virunga National Park ...

BRAZZAVILLE, Republic of Congo, August 22, 2020 (ENS) – A criminal court in the Republic of Congo has sentenced a notorious poacher and ivory trafficker, Mobanza Mobembo Gérard, alias Guyvanho, to 30 ...

KINSHASA (Reuters) – Armed men attacked a group of journalists and park rangers in a remote east Congo wildlife reserve overnight into Saturday, and an American journalist and three guards were ...

The Congo Basin is home to the world’s second-largest rainforest and a unique array of biodiversity. But the ecosystem's remote location cannot protect it from the threat of poaching. Special ...

"I was already saying I'd go live in the Congo when I was nine or 10," says Willem Boulanger, who after satisfying that dream is embarking at age 83 on another—founding a game reserve near Kolwezi.

This piece comes to us from Dr. Alain Ondzie, who leads the Wildlife Health Program for Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) Congo. The current COVID-19 outbreak reminds us that zoonotic viruses can ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Elephant poachers killed three wildlife rangers and wounded two more in a shootout yesterday in Garamba National Park in the Democratic Republic of ...

KINSHASA, Congo-- Five Congo park rangers have been found dead and an American journalist has been found in good condition in the Okapi Wildlife Reserve after going missing during a militia attack, a ...