The Okapi Wildlife Reserve in northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) will now be run under a new management partnership agreement between the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) and the DRC ...

OKAPI WILDLIFE RESERVE, Congo (AP) — Scattered along the banks of the Ituri River, buildings cram together, cranes transport dirt and debris scatters the soil. The patches of trees are a scant ...

JACKSONVILLE, Florida, June 28, 2012 (ENS) – Six, not 10, people were killed in the Sunday morning attack by Mai Mai rebels on the headquarters of the government wildlife agency and the nonprofit ...

2025 47COM 7A.8 - General Decision on the World Heritage properties in the Democratic Republic of the Congo 2025 47COM 7A.11 - Okapi Wildlife Reserve (Democratic Republic of the Congo) 2025 47COM 8C.1 ...

John Lukas will be speaking at the Wildlife Conservation Network Expo in San Francisco on October 12th, 2013. On June 24th of last year, MaiMai Simba rebels, led by an elephant poacher known as Morgan ...

A nudge above the equator in one of the most biodiverse places in Africa lives an almost-mythical mammal that few people have ever seen. The striped okapi is often described as half-zebra, ...

OKAPI WILDLIFE RESERVE, Congo — For eight years, a Chinese mining company has been vastly expanding inside an endangered World Heritage Site, accused by locals and conservationists of decimating the ...

KINSHASA (Reuters) - Congolese authorities have seized 31 kg of gold, worth around $1.9 million, in the Okapi Wildlife Reserve in the country's northeast, in a rare loss for smugglers who fraudulently ...

KINSHASA, Congo-- Five Congo park rangers have been found dead and an American journalist has been found in good condition in the Okapi Wildlife Reserve after going missing during a militia attack, a ...

The birth of a rare okapi calf is being celebrated by zookeepers — and its arrival will help reveal the secrets of "one of the least known and understood species on the planet," said British news ...