In the Virunga National Forest, the mountain gorilla population sits in the middle of a war zone in the Democratic Republic of the Congo as forest rangers track and keep a watchful eye on the ...

Protecting the forests of Virunga National Park in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo ... Africa where youth unemployment sits at 70%. This will protect the park and its rare mountain gorillas ...

By Ryan Biller LAC TÉLÉ COMMUNITY RESERVE , Republic of Congo — Standing on a riverbank in Lac Télé Community Reserve in ...

One of the largest of its kind, this iron ore deposit lies in once intact forest just outside Minkébé national park - a gorilla habitat and the Congo Basin's greatest refuge for forest elephants.

In a dark, almost impenetrable forest in southern Uganda live huge, near-mythical creatures which remind us of ourselves.

Over the last two months, 1,500 hectares of prime mountain gorilla habitat have been cleared ... of illegal settlers and a cessation in forest clearance," says Dr Peter J. Stephenson, Coordinator of ...

The decline in critically endangered Grauer’s gorillas ... either forest destroyers or forest guardians, say various primatologists. After the onset of the Rwandan genocide and Congo Wars ...

These strange, sudden canopy gaps, called bais, are located only in the rainforests of the Congo ... the forest, including many endangered animals like the Western lowland gorilla and the African ...

Six countries -- Cameroon, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon and the Republic of the Congo -- house the majority of forests in the Congo ...

The Republic of Congo’s Lac Télé Community ... roughly 125,000 western lowland gorillas (Gorilla gorilla gorilla) inhabit the Likouala region’s swamp forests; remarkable considering that ...

However, just outside of the Congo rainforest, fossil fuel expansion is threatening some of central Africa's prize conservation ... National Park - an important gorilla and chimpanzee habitat ...