The devastating impact has been revealed of illegal logging on bird communities in the understory layer of Ghana's Upper Guinea rain forests, one of the world's 25 "biodiversity hotspots" where the ...

Following a series of recent surveys in north-western Liberia and south-eastern Guinea, an international team of researchers found three stiletto snakes which were later identified as a species ...

Adjoining Sierra Leone, Guinea and Cote d’Ivoire, the Republic of Liberia flares-out into the mangrove-lined shoes of the Atlantic. Traversing this region are the Upper Guinea Forests, which flank the ...

CONAKRY, Guinea, July 27 (UPI) --Until last year, only one tooth-frog species had been identified within the Upper Guinea forests of West Africa, a region that stretches across parts of Guinea, Sierra ...

Tropical forests are home to more of the world’s terrestrial biodiversity than any other habitat but are increasingly threatened by the impact of human activities. Illegal logging, in particular, ...