By strengthening carbon sinks we can slow down global warming but what are carbon sinks and where can they be found?

Backed by a coalition of influential funders, including Bank of America, the Central Africa Forest Initiative, the Good ...

The Daintree rainforest lies on the east coast of Australia in the tropical region of North Queensland. The forest is a giant mass of green and contains all kinds of ancient plant families that ...

The DRC's vast hydropower potential, mineral resources and expansive forests have awarded it the informal title of being a ...

The forests are part of the Congo Basin that hosts many threatened species and is estimated to store more net carbon dioxide than the Amazon Rainforest, making it important in the fight against ...

The Amazon and its neighbours – the Orinoco and the Andean rainforest – account for 73.5 per cent of tropical forests still ... centred around the Congo River basin, due to traditional and ...

The Republic of Congo is part of the Congo Basin, the planet’s second-largest tropical rainforest and largest tropical peatland. The Congo Basin harbors an extraordinary diversity of life ...

Salonga National Park is Africa's largest tropical rainforest reserve. Situated at the heart of the central basin of the Congo river, the park is very isolated and accessible only by water. It is the ...

However, what was noticeable by its absence from the agenda, despite support from Gabon and the Congo, was the inclusion of financing for protecting tropical rainforests. With the new IPCC report last ...