Listen to more stories on the Noa app. The Belgian empire invaded the Congo rainforest during the late 19th century and swiftly established itself as the cruelest imperial force in Africa. The ...

The Congo rainforest, the second largest tropical forest in the world, has been handed a temporary lifeline after two-thirds of timber concessions were cancelled this week.

Between 2001 and 2018 Congo lost 13m hectares of tree cover (around 6% of the entire rainforest), an area almost twice the size of Ireland. The charcoal trade is partly to blame. Most of Congo’s ...

Rainforest nations failed to agree on formal commitments last week during the United Nations-backed Summit of the Three Rainforest Basins in Brazzaville, Republic of Congo. Among the shelved ...

How much does it cost to protect the Congo Rainforest? ... Approximately 40 million people in the DRC depend on the rainforest for their basic needs, such as medicine, food or shelter.