Conservation, like many other areas of our professional, political and social life, is currently adapting to new trends in information and communication technologies. Despite the colossal digital ...

This piece comes to us from Dr. Alain Ondzie, who leads the Wildlife Health Program for Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) Congo. The current COVID-19 outbreak reminds us that zoonotic viruses can ...

A ranger on duty in the vast Kahuzi-Biega National Park, DRCongo, 2018 (Photo by Andrew Kirkby / WCS) KINSHASA, Democratic Republic of Congo, January 22, 2019 (ENS) – Being a conservation ranger is ...

The Congo River, the world's deepest, flows through six West-Central African nations, forming a vast basin supporting rich ...

With eyes on New York last week as leaders gathered for the UN Climate Summit, a pivotal REDD+ (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation) program has been launched to protect ...

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Heavily armed poachers killed a ranger and two soldiers patrolling in a national park in Congo, a conservation group said Friday. The poachers ambushed the men on Wednesday in ...

Hundreds of thousands of people have been displaced by the humanitarian crisis. Poaching by hungry Congolese as well as by rebels is affecting populations of animals large and small. I'm Madeleine ...

KINSHASA (Reuters) - Armed men attacked a group of journalists and park rangers in a remote east Congo wildlife reserve overnight into Saturday, and an American journalist and three guards were ...

When more than 100 armed militia fighters launched an attack in eastern Congo’s Virunga National Park, guard Bisimwa Kajabika was shot three times in the head as he attempted to protect fleeing ...

BRAZZAVILLE, Republic of Congo, August 22, 2020 (ENS) – A criminal court in the Republic of Congo has sentenced a notorious poacher and ivory trafficker, Mobanza Mobembo Gérard, alias Guyvanho, to 30 ...