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 ...

In eastern Democratic Republic of Congo's Maiko National Park, a few committed rangers have succeeded in protecting gorillas, elephants and other animals from the surrounding fighting. RFI spoke to ...

The world’s only living relative of the giraffe has received its strongest global protection yet. Conservationists say the ...

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 (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 ...

Abraham Prize Awarded to Families of Murdered Guards, Survivors of Poaching, Rebel Attacks; UNESCO World Heritage Site Parks Still Under Siege New York, June 1, 2005: — Within the parks of the Congo ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A ranger on duty in the vast Kahuzi-Biega National Park, DRCongo, 2018 (Photo by Andrew Kirkby / WCS) KINSHASA, Democratic Republic of Congo, January 22, 2019 (ENS) – Being a conservation ranger is ...

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 ...