It comes from West and central Africa, where archaeologists have found 3,000-year-old palm nuts buried in streambeds deep in the forest. Throughout the 1800s, British traders imported African palm ...

With as few as 100 of the species, this was an extraordinary find that took place in the Boyboyba Forest, part of the Pic de Fon classified forest reserve in the southeast of Guinea, West Africa.

The vibrantly colored oil is made from palm fruits and can cost three times as much as its kernel-oil counterpart. Despite the high cost, the handmade oil is a staple in West African households ...

A photo shows two African forest elephants. Photo from Will Burrard-Lucas and Wildlife Conservation Society High-definition trail cameras at a national park in the Republic of the Congo revealed a ...

Earlier this year, President Prabowo Subianto assigned Defence Minister Sjafrie Sjamsoeddin to head a task force to issue fines or take over palm oil plantations discovered in designated forest areas ...

Humans lived under the leafy canopy of a West African rainforest by at least 150,000 ... for cutting fibrous plants and other tropical forest resources. In 2020, archaeologist and geochronologist ...