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

Found in the DRC’s Ituri Forest, a part of the Congo Basin rainforest, they’re popular favorites at zoos around the world. But the okapi, for all its charm, is in more trouble today than it ...

Gold mining in the Democratic Republic of Congo's Okapi Wildlife Reserve is threatening part of the world's second-largest rainforest, and people as well as wildlife are at great risk, Mongabay ...

The Okapi Wildlife Reserve occupies about one-fifth of the Ituri ... during earlier drier climatic periods, as refuge for the tropical rainforest. To the north of the Reserve, the granite rocky ...

the okapi, a forest giraffe, of which it holds some 15% of the world’s remaining 30,000. It’s part of the Congo Basin rainforest — the world’s second-biggest — and a vital carbon sink ...

High-definition trail cameras at a park in the Republic of the Congo reveal elusive rainforest animals. A photo shows two African forest elephants. Photo from Will Burrard-Lucas and Wildlife ...