Forest elephants in central Africa are being poached at alarmingly accelerating rates. A recent 10-year study and subsequent publication in PLOS by the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) is helping to bring the looming extinction of the forest elephant to global attention. To read more on the study click here, and to get the recent story on NPR click here. To see a fact sheet on CARPE's support to the government of DRC's efforts to fight poaching in Salonga National Park click here. One of the more recent poaching incidents involving forest elephants occurred within Dzanga-Ndoki national park, Central African Republic. To read about it click here

From CARPE partner, IUCN. The Primate Specialist Group of the IUCN Species Survival Commission along with several partners has recently published two new reports focusing on the Bonobo (Pan paniscus) and Grauer's Gorillas and Eastern Chimpanzees of the DRC. These reports and others can be found here (click for link).

An excerpt from Dr. Jane Goodall's October 10th 2012 "Making a Difference" lecture at the University of Maryland – College Park. Dr. Pintea, Vice President of conservation science at the Jane Goodall Institute (JGI) presents his research activities of mapping and monitoring chimpanzee and bonobo habitat in collaboration with the Department of Geographical Sciences. See the video excerpt

The Iyondji Community Bonobo Reserve (ICBR) is a new protected area located in northern Democratic Republic of the Congo, just east of the Luo Scientific Reserve and south of the Kokolopori Bonobo Reserve. It was formally established and recognized by the DRC Government April 2012. Click to Read More

Mapping the Future with Landsat – how satellite data contribute to land use planning in the Democratic Republic of Congo