The Congo rainforest covers the very heart of Africa. From the crowded, competitive centre of the forest to the open edge of the Atlantic ocean, this is all about carving out space in a crowded world.

For centuries, at least, the indigenous Bantu peoples of Central, East, and Southern Africa have traded tales of a lumbering creature living in the Congo River Basin ... Photo: Universal/Getty Images ...

"Tropical rainforest" might conjure images of close-packed trees ... are located only in the rainforests of the Congo Basin of west-central Africa. Some stretching the length of 40 football ...