The company claims it is using ‘degraded lands’, but Congo is in dire need of more homegrown food according to the UN. View ...

Congo is home to most of the Congo Basin rainforest, the world's second-biggest, and most of the world's largest tropical peatland, made up of partially decomposed wetlands plant material.

The Republic of the Congo is a precious land, home to the heart of the world’s second-largest rainforest, the Congo Basin — the biggest absorber of carbon dioxide on the planet.

On November 14, 2022, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) promised the world they would generate sustainable management and conservation of their Rainforest, at the COP27 climate change summit ...

Corruption, poor governance and collusion by security agents and militia are fuelling the depletion of the rainforest. The illicit trade is estimated to be Sh164 billion per year.

The extraction in his village in western Congo has polluted the soil, withered his crops and forced the family to burn through savings to survive, he said.