A five-year jail sentence for a notorious elephant poacher could provide a lifeline for wildlife in and around an African rainforest that survived the Ice Age...
... ). Two groups of Pygmy populations live in the African rainforests: the "Western Pygmies" and the "Eastern Pygmies ... , from a common ancestor, rather than by convergent adaptation to the rainforest". However, complete genome-wide profiles ...
... , a slender young Englishwoman was walking through a rainforest reserve at Gombe, in Tanzania, when she came ... scientific observations of modern times in that remote African rainforest. She witnessed a creature, other than a human ...
... " are seeds from the fruit of the cola tree, which is native to African rainforests, and they are expensive to harvest and ship. In West African cultures, people include the nuts in ceremonies and offer ...
OXFORD, England, Jan. 6 (UPI) -- Tropical forests in Africa may be more resilient to future climate change than the Amazon and other regions, scientists at a conference in Britain heard.
... PhysOrg.com) -- Large areas of rainforests in Central Africa mysteriously disappeared over three thousand ...
(Phys.org)—Forest carbon stocks in protected West African rainforests increased despite a 40-year drought, due to a dramatic shift in tree species composition.
Hunting for meat in the African rainforests has halved the number of primates. However, the hunting also has other negative consequences ... in the numbers of important fruit trees and changes to the rainforest. This has been shown in new research from Lund University ...
... of a major new film about chimpanzees, was orphaned two years into a three-year shoot in an African rainforest, dismayed film-makers feared that he faced certain death. Then in stepped ...