What’s behind the strange rash of ’dinosaur’ sightings in the Congo?
For centuries, locals have told stories of mokele-mbembe, a legendary creature said to lurk in the Congo Basin. But as ...
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Researchers show large chunks of critically important forest are being obliterated by mining: 'It's a real mess'
The practice takes place near homes and rivers. Researchers show large chunks of critically important forest are being ...
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Illegal gold mining drives deforestation in DRC reserve home to ‘African unicorn’
Illegal mining inside the Okapi Wildlife Reserve in northeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) continues to spread, satellite data show, driving environmental devastation. Deforestation ...
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Deforestation and it impacts!
Recent data tell us that tropical Africa has lost about 22 per cent of its forested a.   rea since 1900, which is comparable to the losses in the Amazon.
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Congo-Kinshasa: 'Areas Essential to the Global Climate Are Being Threatened By Economic Projects'
Interview - CIVICUS discusses activism against oil auctions in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) with François Kamate, founder and coordinator of the young environmental volunteer movement ...
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Mining in a forest conservation site clouds Republic of Congo’s carbon credit scheme
The Republic of Congo set up a REDD+ program in the Sangha and Likouala regions, aiming to reduce deforestation and store carbon from 2020 through to 2024. However, in the Sangha region alone, ...
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Reducing Deforestation to Fight Climate Change
Deforestation is a major man-made source of ... like the Democratic Republic of Congo. Forests naturally act as a storage unit, or "sink," for carbon emissions into the atmosphere, absorbing ...
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Mineral exploitation overshadows green diplomacy in Congo’s Sangha region
The Republic of Congo’s minister of mines has issued ... Sangha’s REDD+ program aims to reduce deforestation and degradation and is fundamentally incompatible with gold mining, which has ...