The deforestation and forest degradation associated with the secondary roads also varied greatly across regions. In the Congo Basin, deforestation associated with secondary roads was 31.5 times ...

It is also Africa’s biggest rainforest and the second-largest in the ... the Republic of Congo, Equatorial Guinea, and Gabon. The forest covers an area of around 300 million hectares and ...

Secondary roads accounted for forest loss and degradation rates that were 31.5 times greater than first-cut roads in the ...

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 ...