The Okapi Wildlife Reserve occupies about one-fifth of the Ituri ... during earlier drier climatic periods, as refuge for the tropical rainforest. To the north of the Reserve, the granite rocky ...

We are now in the middle of the sixth mass extinction, caused by our emergence as a planet-shaping force. Species are going extinct far faster than the average natural rate of loss.

the okapi, a forest giraffe, of which it holds some 15% of the world’s remaining 30,000. It’s part of the Congo Basin rainforest — the world’s second-biggest — and a vital carbon sink ...