Two new animals are joining the roster, too: a panther chameleon in Madagascar!, and an aardvark in Carter Giraffe Building.

As a child, Dominique Bikaba, was displaced by a new national park in the DRC. Now he is helping to secure land for wildlife and Indigenous groups against the backdrop of ongoing fighting ...

The Democratic Republic of Congo indicated it’s approving American firm Virtus Minerals Inc.’s purchase of copper and cobalt miner Chemaf SA, a deal that will help bolster a partnership between the US ...

In the last decade, there has been a steady increase in the number of Indigenous Twa families leaving forests their ancestors relied on in the Congo Basin for urban centers in northern North Kivu, ...

A drone strike in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo on a house used by international relief staff killed a French aid worker Wednesday morning. Two other people were also killed, according to ...

Traditional music and dance remain central to the cultural life of many indigenous forest communities in the Congo Basin. Gatherings often feature rhythmic singing, percussion, and coordinated ...

At the juncture where the French Quarter meets Treme, where the ramparts originally separated "back of town" from the rest of the city, is Congo Square, the birthplace of our cultural heritage."It's ...

Remember Moo Deng? The pygmy hippo that broke the Internet with her adorable cuteness? Well, there’s a new baby pygmy hippo in town—at Arizona’s Wildlife World Zoo in Litchfield Park, to be exact—and ...

Scientists in Indonesia have tagged a pygmy blue whale for the first time using a drone. Data from the tag revealed a previously unknown path used by the species on its southern migration from ...

LITCHFIELD PARK, AZ (AZFamily) — Wildlife World Zoo, Aquarium & Safari Park is welcoming an endangered baby pygmy hippopotamus to the West Valley. The 2-week-old hippo, which has not yet been named, ...

ST. GEORGE — Wildlife enthusiasts have been gathering in southern Utah to spot a rare bird of prey, not with their eyes, but with lenses that can see what the eye can't see. In recent days, a couple ...

For the Bronx Zoo, Christmas came early in 2025. On December 13, the Zoo celebrated the birth of the first primate born in the Zoo’s new immersive World of Darkness exhibit. Its first new primate ...