Trekking here takes you into the land of rare wildlife including gorillas and forest elephants. The dense canopy keeps the ...

Countries whose montane forests have the highest carbon stocks per hectare – Guinea, Mozambique and Zimbabwe – have the least land under these forests. Moreover, the study finds that over the past two ...

In a paper in Nature, Cuni-Sanchez et al. 1 report the assembly of a large database of tree inventories for 226 mature montane-forest plots in 12 African countries. The authors analyse the data to ...

Montane forests are often cloudy, wet, cold, and occur on isolated mountains in Africa. They are rich in biodiversity and act as water towers by trapping water from fog and clouds, providing high ...

Montane forests even capture carbon, prevent soil erosion, and serve as critical habitats for threatened and endangered wildlife. Yet these forests are under threat from wildfires, droughts, pollution ...

A new study confirms a continuous presence of montane coniferous forests from the Pyrenees to the Mediterranean coast from 50,000 to 15,000 years ago, demonstrating their resilience to the extreme ...

A study conducted by the CEPAP-UAB at Cova de Santa Linya confirms a continuous presence of montane coniferous forests from the Pyrenees to the Mediterranean coast from 50,000 to 15,000 years ago ...

The Nigerian Montane Forest Project’s field station set in the Ngel Nyaki Forest. Photo by: Pierre-Michel Forget. Between 2000 and 2010, Nigeria lost nearly a third (31 percent) of its forest ...

Mozambique lost a third of its montane forests between 2000 and 2018. At this rate, another 500,000 hectares (1.2 million acres) of mountain forest cover will be gone by 2030.