The elephants frequent muddy, mineral-rich clearings called baïs which are a unique feature of the Congo Basin rainforest.

Salonga National Park has been on the danger list since 1999, but has now been taken off following important conservation improvements.

Congo rainforest tree in the Omphalocarpum genus showing large fruits on the trunk. New study shows this species is dependent on elephant to survive. Photo by: David Beaune.

High resolution cameras at park in Republic of the Congo reveal elusive rainforest animals such as elephants & leopard, organization said.

High resolution cameras at park in Republic of the Congo reveal elusive rainforest animals such as elephants & leopard, organization said.

They then compared their results with real-world field data from two lowland rainforest sites in the Congo, one that sees elephant grazing and another that doesn’t.

Sightings of the Congo River Basin's dinosaur-like mokele-mbembe are increasingly common. Here's why.

Officials in Gabon, central Africa, are implementing measures to try to protect the elephants, other wildlife such as gorillas and chimps, and the carbon-rich Congo Basin rainforest.

More than a million hours of sound recordings are available from the Elephant Listening Project (ELP) in the K. Lisa Yang Center for Conservation Bioacoustics at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology—a ...

Humans play a far greater role in the fate of African elephants than habitat, and human conflict in particular has a devastating impact on these largest terrestrial animals, according to a new study.