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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Forest cleared near Yangambi, Democratic Republic of the Congo. Axel Fassio / CIFOR Africa’s forests have turned from a carbon ...

Africa's forested areas -- an estimated 14 % of the global forest area -- are continuing to decline at an increasing rate -- mostly because of human activities to convert forest land for economic ...

Groundbreaking new research warns that Africa’s forests, once vital allies in the fight against climate change, have turned from a carbon sink into a carbon source. A new international study published ...

The author should be contacted directly for interview requests. WASHINGTON — A new study presents the first large-scale analysis of fire patterns in west and central Africa’s wet, tropical forests.

Typical representation of the understorey layer in dry and wet Miombo. Where ‘a’, ‘b’ and ‘c’ are respectively SK1, H3 and Z1. While ‘d’, ‘e’ and ‘f’ are respectively M2, M1 and M3. These pictures ...

The coastal area stretching from southern Somalia through Kenya and Tanzania to southern Mozambique is marked by tropical dry forests, wetlands and savanna and grassland habitats. This unique forest ...

In NASA satellite images, forest fires in central Africa appear to burn alarmingly like a red chain from Gabon to Angola similar to the blazes in Brazil's Amazon that sparked global outcry. At the G7 ...