Honduran White Bat. No. 123156. Field Museum of Natural History. Huddled together under the roost they construct out of the wide, waxy leaves of the Heliconia plant, a group of Honduran white bats mo...

Harelip Sucker (Lagochila lacera). Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago. FMNH no. 1847. Conservation status: extinct. In 2004 this species was renamed Moxostoma lacerum. The last specimen was coll...

Darwin's Frog (Rhinoderma darwinii), FMNH no. 40125 and others. Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago. Conservation status: vulnerable. Occurring in the forests of Argentina and Chile, this species...

Philippine Crocodile (Crocodilus mindorensis), FMNH catalogue no. 19891. Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago. Conservation status: critically endangered. Crocodilus mindorensis is the most enadan...

Left to right: Gray-breasted Wood-Wren(Henicorhina leucophrys), White-breasted Wood-Wren (H. leucosticta tropaea), Bar-winged wood-wren (Henicorhina leucoptera). Field Museum of Natural History, Chica...

The Isalowe plant nursery funded by the FORETS project to support scientific research and reforestation endeavours.

Members of the Akilimani fish farming women's cooperative in one of their ponds. The initiative is supported by the FORETS project as part of efforts to develop sustainable livelihoods that reduce pre...

The Akilimani fish farm, run by a group of women, in Yanonge in the Tshopo province of the Democratic Republic of Congo. The initiative is supported by the FORETS project as part of efforts to develop...

Lisasi Bolongola (left) haggles with a trader over the sale price of a monkey at a bushmeat market at a crossroads of forest tracks in Yangambi. As hunters emerge from the bush on Saturdays after a we...

A view of the Congo River.

A FORETS project vehicle travelling a muddy forest track on the Yangambi research station.

INERA researcher Joel Lioku Litale (right) and agroforestry technician Augustin Iyokwa beside a mukulungu tree. The species is in danger of dying out, thought to be the result of the local extinction...

INERA researcher Joel Lioku Litale indicates scarring on the trunk of a mukulungu tree, from harvesting bark for medicinal purposes. The tree is also prized for making canoes, and because it's leaves...

A view over a stretch of the Congo Basin Forest.

Fabrice Kimbesa, a technician, on the CongoFlux tower in Yangambi in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The 55m high tower is the first of its kind in the globally important Congo Basin Forest, and is...