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 ...

An agroforestry initiative in a cocoa-growing community on Cameroon aims to prevent the expansion of cocoa farms into the nearby forest while also providing additional income to farmers. A community ...

Africa’s great rainforests were long treated as a quiet ally in the climate fight, soaking up vast quantities of carbon dioxide and helping to steady a warming planet. New research now shows that ...

MOMBASA, Kenya (AP) — In a bid to protect coastal communities from climate change and encourage investment, African nations are increasingly turning to mangrove restoration projects, with Mozambique ...

The dietary habits of African forest elephants (Loxodonta cyclotis) promote the survival of large, high wood density trees better at storing carbon. New research finds that forest-dwelling elephants ...

Fatoyinbo used a remote sensing software-based classification method that separates the different types of land cover like forest, urban area, and soil, differentiating by colors or reflectance. Here, ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. MOMBASA, Kenya (AP) — In a bid to protect ...