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 ...

“We always knew there were gorillas in and around Lac Télé ... “It isn’t a fun journey.” The swamp forests of the Republic of Congo’s Lac Télé Community Reserve are criss-crossed ...

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 ...