For centuries, locals have told stories of mokele-mbembe, a legendary creature said to lurk in the Congo Basin. But as ...

In the Virunga National Forest, the mountain gorilla population sits in the middle of a war zone in the Democratic Republic of the Congo as forest rangers track and keep a watchful eye on the ...

The zoo features several exhibits that are both educational and entertaining. The Congo Gorilla Forest, for example, is a naturalistic habitat that recreates the African rainforest, while the ...

These strange, sudden canopy gaps, called bais, are located only in the rainforests of the Congo ... of the forest, including many endangered animals like the Western lowland gorilla and the ...

Spanning nearly a tenth of the vast Congo Basin’s rainforest ... endangered animals like forest elephants (Loxodonta cyclotis), western lowland gorillas (Gorilla gorilla gorilla) and chimpanzees ...