Copince Ngoma, a member of the Bakouele Indigenous community, has relied on the lush green Congo Basin rainforest his whole ...
The Congo Basin is now home to over four million hectares (ha) of sustainably managed forests following certification by the Forest Stewardship Council of numerous locations in the region. Yaoundé, ...
OSLO, May 27 (Reuters) - A tract of tropical forest in the Congo Basin mapped with the help of local pygmies has become the largest in the world certified under a system meant to ensure responsible ...
More and more logging companies are turning to sustainable forest management practices — something widely ignored in the past. Find out more on how a WWF project in Cameroon is introducing sustainable ...
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DRC's plan for the world's largest tropical forest reserve would be good for the planet: Can it succeed?
The government of the Democratic Republic of Congo passed a law in January 2025 to lead efforts to establish the largest tropical forest reserve in the world. It will be set up as a 2,600km long green ...
The United States plans to invest up to $53 million dollars in the Congo Basin Forest Partnership through the year 2005. The U.S. contributions to the partnership will help promote economic ...
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Kenya’s Mau, Kakamega forests to benefit from Congo Basin Blue Fund
By Milliam MurigiKenya’s Mau Forest Complex and Kakamega Forest are set to benefit from new climate financing under the Congo Basin Blue Fund.This is a financing mechanism aimed at protecting the ...
The Congo Basin, a region of tropical forest larger than India, is at a point where further damage may rob the world of a crucial bulwark against climate change. That’s the conclusion of the first ...
PARIS, Dec 8 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Protecting increasingly threatened forests in central Africa's Congo Basin will require not just cash but African governments enforcing their own forest ...
Baka, a Mbendjele pygmy, stops to make a fire in the northern forests of the Congo Republic while another pygmy behind him holds a Global Positioning System (GPS) handset, October 2007. Using GPS ...
A new study has uncovered that forest loss is changing weather patterns in the world’s three largest remaining tropical rainforests. The study, published in the journal Nature last month, found that ...
YAOUNDE (Reuters) - Two-thirds of the forests in the Congo River Basin could disappear within 50 years if logging and mineral exploitation continues at current rates, environmental group WWF said in a ...
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