Today, the term “Big Five” refers to the beauty and power of some of Africa’s most iconic animals. However, it has a much darker history. Trophy hunters in the 19th century considered elephants, ...

Around the same time, bush-meat sales increased in Malabo. As in much of West Africa, bush meat, from wild animals in the forest, particularly from monkeys, is prized as a delicacy, even though it ...

The African Elephant is the largest land animal on Earth with adult males attaining heights of 11.5 feet (3.5 m) and weighing more than 13,000 pounds (5,000 kg). Their tusks can grow to 8 feet (2. ...

Across southeastern Liberia, oil palms grow wild in the forest. Known as “country palm,” the Elaeis guineensis tree is native ...

There’s also the forest buffalo, the West Africa savanna ... a virus that’s nearly always fatal to hoofed animals—to Africa, and it caused buffalo numbers to crash across the continent.

At the same time, it is officially identifying African elephants ... of these desperately imperiled animals,” said Tanya Sanerib, international legal director at the Center for Biological Diversity.

Elephants have the longest gestation period of any animal at 22 months ... is crucial to the maintenance of tree diversity in Central Africa — which houses the world's second largest rainforest.

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 ...

We hypothesise that ‘intermediate’-looking animals are a result of hybridisation, or the adaptation of some populations of forest origin to a more open environment in West Africa.

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 ...