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 ...

From 2001 to 2020, mining activity in Africa accounted for over 462,000 acres of forest loss.

By Wanjira MathaiData from Global Forest Watch, the world’s most trusted platform for real-time forest monitoring, has revealed that global tree cover loss in 2025 was 25.5 million hectares—an area ...

The global push for a transition to green energy has sparked demand for critical minerals such as lithium, vanadium, copper ...

Impoverished fishermen along the coast of tropical African countries like Mozambique and Madagascar may have only a few more years to eke out a profit from one of their nations’ biggest agricultural ...

Professor Heiko Balzter, Dr Nezha Acil (right) and University of Leicester colleagues at a zoobotanical garden at the Museu Emilio Goeldi in Belém, with trees and animals from the Amazon.

Africa's forests remain one of the continent's greatest assets for building resilient livelihoods, protecting biodiversity and strengthening economies, according to the African Forest Forum (AFF).

Larger areas contain more species. This is one of the most ironclad laws of ecology, which explains why large natural areas usually receive higher priority in conservation strategies. In fragmented ...

Deep within the shrinking rainforests of West Africa lives a crocodile that behaves nothing like the sluggish, log-like ...

* Congo Basin seen valuable in climate change battle * Forest preservation costs African nations * Countries may not endorse deal without compensation By Tansa Musa YAOUNDE, Nov 30 (Reuters) - The ...