The report, titled "New Life in the Congo Basin: A Decade of Species Discoveries," breaks down the discoveries of 742 new species in the Congo Basin, the second-largest rainforest and river basin ...

Known as the “lungs of Africa”, the Congo Basin is the largest carbon sink in the world. It is also the largest tropical peatland in the world. Spanning across six countries, its rainforest provides ...

Therefore, deforestation of the Congo rainforest, the second largest in the world, is pushing many animal species to extinction. Data shows that mountain gorillas, bush elephants and okapi that ...