The Miombo Forest is a vast expanse of lush greenery that stretches across seven countries in Central and West Africa, providing a critical habitat for a wide array of flora and fauna, while also serv ...

For decades, the Congo Basin was largely invisible to climate science. Now, a new generation of Central African researchers ...

To date, agricultural expansion in sub-Saharan Africa has mainly been driven by small-scale subsistence farmers. Yet since 2005, 22.7 million hectares of land in sub-Saharan Africa has been acquired ...

The Democratic Republic of the Congo has announced the creation of a huge new forest reserve, the size of France.

Explore the significance of Africa's Miombo Forest, a vast, biodiverse region critical to the planet's ecological health.

Recent research by scientists at the Botanical Research Institute of Texas (BRIT), Texas Tech University, and several other ...

This path, near the Dja river in the south region of Cameroon, lay next to the small village of Bemba. The village folk, Baka ...

Wild Africa, an environmental nonprofit, has asked the Nigerian government to intensify efforts in protecting the nation’s ...

Satellite images from space are allowing scientists to delve deeper into the individual functions of different tropical forest canopies with new and surprising results. Understanding tree traits and ...

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) supports Ghana’s Tree for Life Reforestation Initiative at national launch ...

A critically endangered new species of killifish sampled from an ancient forest in Kenya in 2017 and 2018 has now been described. Nothobranchius sylvaticus, from the Latin meaning 'pertaining to the ...