For decades, scientists believed ancient humans avoided dense rainforests, treating them as nearly impossible environments ...

The Republic of the Congo became an independent nation on August 15th, 1960. Measuring in at more than two million square kilometers, Central Africa’s Congolian rainforests play host to a truly ...

Rainforests are a major world biome which humans are not thought to have inhabited until relatively recently. New evidence now shows that humans lived in rainforests at least 150 thousand years ago in ...

One of Africa’s oldest national parks, Odzala-Kokoua has diverse ecosystems that include tropical rainforests, savannahs, swamps and mineral-rich woodland clearings known as baï. Photograph by Matt ...

Part of the larger Congo Basin, the 90-year-old Odzala-Kokoua National Park in the central African country of the Republic of the Congo (also known as Congo-Brazzaville) is an incredibly valuable ...

African rainforests harbour some of the world’s richest reservoirs of genetic variation, underpinning ecosystem resilience, evolutionary potential and the provision of ecosystem services. This ...

Researchers discovered evidence for human habitation of rainforests 150,000 years ago. This pushes back the oldest known evidence of humans in rainforests by more than double the previously known ...

Sheltering an incredible diversity of flora and fauna, including western lowland gorillas and forest elephants, is a vast, little-visited tropical rainforest known as the ‘lungs of Africa’.