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 ...

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 ...

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

France and Cameroon signed the first ever Central African debt-for-nature swap, which will see millions of dollars invested in protecting parts of the Congo River Basin, the world’s second largest ...

RANGE: The majority of remaining forest elephant populations occur in Central Africa, in the countries of Gabon, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Republic of Congo ... Africa — which houses the world ...

a forest giraffe, of which it holds some 15% of the world’s remaining 30,000. It’s part of the Congo Basin rainforest — the world’s second-biggest — and a vital carbon sink that helps ...