Ndoki National Park, a 4,000-square-kilometer (1,545-square-mile) expanse of lowland rainforest in the Democratic Republic of ...

In the Kinshasa Botanical Garden, a troupe of cardboard animals — monkeys, a gorilla, leopards, a giraffe — stand at ...

These were the first steps of “The Herds”, a moving theatre performance made up of cardboard puppet animals that flee from ...

But the park, which is part of the 60 per cent Congo basin rainforest found in DRC and endowed with century-old indigenous trees among other biodiversity, is under attack, courtesy of illegal ...

The Congo Basin spans 3.4 million square kilometres, making it almost six times the size of the UK, which measures around 242,000 square kilometres. It is also Africa’s biggest rainforest and ...

We were in one of the most remote places on earth, deep in Congo's rainforest. Reaching a safe place to stay for the night seemed a distant possibility. We were making our way back from Gbadolite ...

One impact of climate change is increased tropical storms. The southeast of Africa experiences tropical cyclones - for ...

BBC Radio 4 appeal will broadcast an appeal to protect rainforests on behalf of climate change charity Cool Earth. The appeal ...

Torrential rains and floods have killed at least 33 people in Kinshasa - the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo - according to officials. "The republic will not abandon you," President ...