We estimate that about 80 percent of the Goliathus cacicus population has been wiped out in Côte d'Ivoire if we consider the amount of forest destroyed for cocoa farming. Goliathus regius has ...

HABITAT: Forest elephants occupy the rainforests of West and Central Africa. RANGE: The majority of remaining forest elephant populations occur in Central Africa, in the countries of Gabon, Democratic ...

The Miombo Forest is a vast expanse of lush greenery that stretches across seven countries in Central and West Africa, providing a critical habitat for a wide array of flora and fauna, while also serv ...

An archaeological discovery in West Africa reveals that humans lived in tropical ... This discovery suggests that tropical forests were an important habitat for humans much earlier than previously ...

is native to West and central Africa, and commercial plantations are now expanding in the region. If a full-scale boom developed, it could encroach on crucial habitat for great apes, forest ...

Beyond habitat destruction ... Without intervention, these massive beetles could vanish from West African forests, taking with them an essential piece of the ecosystem. Scientists, governments ...

There’s also the forest buffalo, the West Africa savanna buffalo ... able to live and flourish in many habitats—from semi-arid bushland to coastal savannas to lowland rainforests—as long ...

I was studying reptiles under threat in west Africa’s forests with a team of ecologists from African and European countries. I realised that the Goliath beetles shared the same habitat and could ...

HABITAT: Savannah elephants occupy the savannah, grassland and desert ecosystems of sub-Saharan Africa. RANGE: Savannah elephants live in sub-Saharan Africa occur in small populations of West and ...