SINGAPORE – Rainforest Wild Adventure on July 27 welcomed the arrival of an okapi calf, the first to be born in Southeast Asia.

Way back in 1901, Western scientists celebrated the sensational ‘discovery’ of a very strange, unicorn-like creature in the dark and humid depths of an African rainforest. Now, more than 125 years ...

Science ignored the okapi for centuries while Indigenous communities in the Congo knew it well, and even after a skull reached London in 1901, researchers struggled to explain what they were looking ...

Discover the okapi's unusual adaptations and the conservation challenges threatening its forest home ...

Newswise — Samarkand, Uzbekistan, November 17, 2025 — The Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) is calling for the adoption of a proposal submitted by the Government of the Democratic Republic of the ...

A Chinese-run gold mine in eastern Congo’s Ituri province is slowly spreading into an area that many say it should not be operating in at all. The area is the Okapi Wildlife Reserve, an endangered ...

One November day in 1935 a babbling, excited band of pygmies pranced into the Catholic Mission at Buta, in the Belgian Congo, carrying with them a baby okapi, scarcely a dozen days old. They had ...

OKAPI WILDLIFE RESERVE, Congo — For eight years, a Chinese mining company has been vastly expanding inside an endangered World Heritage Site, accused by locals and conservationists of decimating the ...

KINSHASA (Reuters) - Congo's endangered okapi, so shy it has not been seen in its natural habitat for 50 years by conservationists, has been photographed in the wild for the first time, the Zoological ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. OKAPI WILDLIFE RESERVE, Congo (AP) — For ...