Mpox is a disease caused by the highly infectious monkeypox virus. It’s quite easily passed on from one person to another. But it originally came from infected animals. It’s not yet certain which ...

For those lucky enough to have witnessed forest elephants roaming in the wild, many, if not all, can attest to their ...

As a child growing up in the Ndumo Game Reserve on the South Africa-Mozambique border, Simon Pooley read an animal encyclopaedia given to his family by a visiting scientist. He became fascinated by ...

High-definition trail cameras at a park in the Republic of the Congo reveal elusive rainforest animals. A photo shows two African forest elephants. Photo from Will Burrard-Lucas and Wildlife ...

In 2017, when Vincent Deblauwe joined the Cameroon-based Congo Basin Institute (CBI) to study African ebony (Diospyros crassiflora) — economically valuable pitch-black, dense wood — the Indigenous ...

Follow this author to personalize your feed and get instant alerts. WHY FOLLOW? Update your preferences in Account Settings Gorillas at Kamba Part of the larger Congo Basin, the 90-year-old ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. In late May, Mongabay accompanied a group of conservationists and scientists to Taï National Park — a large rainforest in Côte d’Ivoire famous for ...

West Africa’s Upper Guinean rainforest is one of the world’s important biodiversity regions, but much of it has been reduced, fragmented, or degraded. What remains is often separated into patches ...

Okapi: New Book Celebrates A Once Famous Animal And Recovers Indigenous Experts' Place In Its History. As a child growing up ...