Africa needs its forests for sustainable development, poverty reduction, food security, and to make the continent more resilient to climate change. They take up 23% of the continent. At 674 million ...

Africa’s forests have undergone a shocking reversal, switching from carbon absorbers to carbon emitters after 2010. Researchers found that heavy deforestation in tropical regions has led to massive ...

Loss of habitat and poaching have made African forest elephants a critically endangered species. Yet the dense forests of sparsely populated Gabon in the Congo River Basin remain a "last stronghold" ...

Africa’s largest elephant DNA study reveals growing genetic isolation as habitats shrink, raising urgent concerns for ...

With African elephants endangered, a UCLA-led study says their decline could ripple from the rainforest to the concert stage—revealing a critical link between the threatened species and pianos and ...

Africa's forests that were once considered a powerful ally against climate change have changed sides. Trees in Africa have flipped from being carbon absorbers to carbon emitters, a shift scientists ...

MOMBASA, Kenya (AP) — In villages dotted across the African continent, locals living in once-heavily forested regions are starting to find their land in high demand. In Kenya's Gazi Bay, arguably the ...

MOMBASA, Kenya (AP) — In a bid to protect coastal communities from climate change and encourage investment, African nations are increasingly turning to mangrove restoration projects, with Mozambique ...

New study shows unexpected natural forest regrowth in Africa, even as overall forest loss continues to impact global climate ...

Negotiators discussing wildlife trade rules have agreed overwhelmingly to back a proposal that regulates the currently unrestricted trade in all seven species of African forest hornbills. Eight West ...

Humans lived under the leafy canopy of a West African rainforest by at least 150,000 years ago. Previously, the oldest secure evidence for humans living in African rainforests dated to about 18,000 ...