Botanists have found a stand of rare trees in Tanzania’s Zanzibar archipelago not known to grow wild anywhere else in Africa.

For the best experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings. Africa has lost the largest amount of forest cover globally in the last decade - 3.9 ...

He wants county forest officers and forest stations to urgently prepare fire preparedness plans. Lemarkoko said fire watchtowers should be manned from 6am to 6pm. “In the event of a fire ...

Africa, Asia and Australia. The largest rainforest, the Amazon, is located in South America. More than half of the Earth's species of animals and plants live in tropical rainforests, even though ...

It has been a hectic afternoon for the City of Cape Town's fire and rescue services as they tackled numerous vegetation fires ...

A group of zebras in the Akagera National Park in Rwanda. Africa is home to 13 percent of the world’s biodiversity and 20 percent of its forests, making it a crucial player in global ...

Operating within the Republic of the Congo, Kamba African Rainforest Adventures has mastered the art of ecotourism in one of Africa's most iconic forests.

For example, many tropical forests have been converted to commercial plantations, including cocoa (Theobroma cacao) in West Africa ... proportion of ground cover vegetation are important for ...