whispered in villages and embellished with each new “sighting,” and Abong’o says deforestation is the reason why. The Congo Basin—Earth’s second-largest rainforest and one of its most ...

In the Congo River Basin, people who collect bundles of wood to make charcoal are playing a surprisingly large role in the deforestation of a region that rivals the Amazon in importance.

A recent study found that cacao farming in the Congo Basin, the world’s largest carbon sink, is linked with up to seven times more deforestation than other agricultural activities. Outside ...

LONDON, Nov 11 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - At the COP27 climate talks in Egypt this week, world leaders have sought to accelerate efforts to halt deforestation by 2030 - in line with a pledge ...

New York, Geneva, Nairobi, 29 May 2025 A new initiative in one of the worlds most vital ecosystems the Congo Basin aims to ...

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A new initiative in one of the world’s most vital ecosystems – the Congo Basin – aims to unlock nature-positive, climate-resilient business opportunities for micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises ...

The palm oil industry, illegal logging and deforestation by small-scale farmers in West-Central Africa are also decimating the rainforests in the Congo Basin. "When we're removing trees ...

Total human impact footprints of first-cut roads reached up to 1,923 hectares per kilometer in the Brazilian Amazon, 272 ...

Wildfires drive record forest loss in 2024, alarming data reveals - Fires emitted 4.1 gigatonnes of greenhouse gases, more ...

The Congo Basin is one of the world’s last carbon sinks and a vital ... and community forests can help reduce deforestation and forest degradation. According to Pierre Ploton from the French ...