After a century of decreased sightings, reports of a long-necked water monster the size of a hippopotamus are once again ...

We climb down to investigate. More than 2,000 species of animals live in the Congo River Basin. The greatest threat to many is the commercial wildlife trade. Local people depend on bush meat ...

The Congo Basin spans 3.4 million square kilometres, making it almost six times the size of the UK, which measures around 242,000 square kilometres. It is also Africa’s biggest rainforest and ...

The Congo Basin serves as one of the planet’s “lungs,” the other being the Amazon Rainforest. They say much less attention ...

It’s part of the Congo Basin rainforest — the world’s second-biggest — and a vital carbon sink that helps mitigate climate change. It also has vast mineral wealth such as gold and diamonds.