The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has taken a decisive stride towards sustainable forest management with the official ...

DRC boasts over 155 million hectares (67% of DRC’s total area and 60% of the Congo Basin’s Forest area), representing 18% of ...

The Congo Basin rainforest is the second-largest tropical forest in the world, storing large volumes of carbon and hosting high levels of biodiversity. While these forests have historically stayed ...

Earth’s second great rainforest has been largely neglected. ... Earth’s ‘second lung’ is under threat. Losing the Congo Basin forests would set the fight against climate change back 20 years.

The Congo is the world’s second-largest rainforest after the Amazon and a bigger carbon sink, absorbing more than a billion tons of atmospheric carbon per year.

So far, the Congo’s 500 million acres of forest have remained largely intact. But maybe not for a reason that anyone can celebrate. Read: The Amazon cannot be recovered once it’s gone.

A vast rainforest stretches for 1,500 miles across central Africa. The mighty Congo River and its tributaries are the main highways into this hard-to-reach region.

The Congo rainforest is the world’s largest after the Brazilian Amazon. It is a peerless natural resource teeming with biodiversity, and home to 40 million people.

The forest covers an area of around 300 million hectares and supports an extraordinary variety of life. ... The Congo basin is the biggest rainforest in Africa and the second largest in the world.

DR Congo conflict fuels forest loss. By Djaffar Al Katanty and Sonia Rolley. July 17, 2024 12:42 PM UTC Updated July 17, 2024 Companies; Virunga Power. Follow. KIBATI, Democratic Republic ...

The ADF was founded in 1995 in Uganda as an armed Islamist group, but a crackdown in the early 2000s forced the fighters to flee across the border into the mountainous forests of eastern Congo.