New research warns that Africa's forests, once vital allies in the fight against climate change, have turned from a carbon ...

New research shows Africa’s forests now release more carbon than they absorb. This raises global climate risks and calls for ...

A coalition of African nations has secured new Cites controls on the international trade of hornbills amid concerns over ...

Between 2010 and 2017 alone, Africa lost about 106 billion kilograms of forest biomass every year — roughly the weight of 106 ...

For decades, we’ve relied on the world’s tropical forests to do the heavy lifting in the fight against climate change. We ...

A new report shows an increase in estimated forest elephant numbers, but this is a function of better surveying, and the ...

The development means that the world’s three major rainforest regions — South American Amazon, Southeast Asia, and Africa — ...

Deforestation and degradation have reversed the continent’s role as a carbon sink, shows study in Scientific Reports - Anadolu Ajansı ...

Negotiators discussing wildlife trade rules have agreed overwhelmingly to back a proposal that regulates the currently ...

A new assessment of African Forest Elephants reveals an estimated 135,690 individuals1, with an additional 7,728 to 10,990 ...

Elephants are vital to ecosystems. Learn interesting facts and how WWF works to protect them across Africa and Asia.

Logging and mining are destroying swathes of the Congo rainforest, with the result that African forests went from being  a ...