The Congo Basin is also the world’s largest carbon sink, absorbing an estimated 1.5 billion tons of carbon each year. Deforestation releases stored carbon and reduces the number of intact trees ...

Recent data tell us that tropical Africa has lost about 22 per cent of its forested area since 1900, which is comparable to the losses in the Amazon.

At COP29, the UK Foreign Secretary announced partnerships and funding to support indigenous communities and forest protection ...

The paper, by A. Tyukavina at University of Maryland in College Park, MD, and colleagues was titled, "Congo Basin forest loss dominated by increasing smallholder clearing." ...

Nine million hectares of forest have been earmarked for conservation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo as part of a landmark government/forest stakeholder agreement to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG ...

Worryingly, say the authors, a new deforestation hotspot in West Africa is emerging. The rate of tree-felling in the Democratic republic of Congo has doubled in the past five years. The New York ...

Therefore, deforestation of the Congo rainforest, the second largest in the world, is pushing many animal species to extinction. Data shows that mountain gorillas, bush elephants and okapi that ...

Deforestation is a major man-made source of ... like the Democratic Republic of Congo. Forests naturally act as a storage unit, or "sink," for carbon emissions into the atmosphere, absorbing ...

See All Key Ideas LUBUMBASHI, Democratic Republic of Congo — An environmental activist ... threatened a logger allegedly engaged in illegal deforestation in the country’s eastern Maniema ...

followed by the Republic of Congo, Bolivia, Indonesia, and Peru. The increase in deforestation in Brazil was registered during the Jair Bolsonaro (PL) government, which, according to the study ...

Deaths, mass rapes, kidnappings for ransom, displacements, money laundering and costly environmental harm are the results of the violent competition for natural resources in eastern Democratic ...