But Africa has the highest rate of forest loss in the world. About 3.9 million hectares of African forest – the size of about ...

Home to one of the largest tributaries of the Congo River, the Central African Republic (CAR) and the Democratic Republic of ...

Two decades later, the legend of mokele-mbembe remains alive, whispered in villages and embellished with each new “sighting,” and Abong’o says deforestation is the reason why. The Congo ...

Some factors are both consequences and causes of deforestation, as in the case of human migrations and urbanization, as represented by bidirectional arrows. This figure was created using Mind the ...

Madagascar has been particularly hard hit by deforestation, having lost half its forests over the past 60 years. While Congo-Brazzaville has maintained a low deforestation rate compared to ...

Congo-Brazzaville and Madagascar are combining efforts to protect their primary forests, which support rich ecosystems and rare wildlife but face increasing threats from deforestation. The ...

However, nearly 96% of all deforestation in 2023 occurred in tropical countries like Brazil, Indonesia, Bolivia, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Tropical Oceania was the only tropical ...

KIBATI, Democratic Republic of Congo - Under the denuded slopes of ... traders in Kibati town bartered over sacks of charcoal, a product of deforestation that an ongoing conflict has pushed ...

Any decent human being has to hope that a more stable peace will soon come to the Congo, even though it will likely mean more intense deforestation. The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC ...

The area of virgin forest cleared in Bolivia jumped 32 per cent last year, fuelling concerns that government-backed deforestation ... Democratic Republic of the Congo — which are eight and ...

has pledged to tackle Amazon deforestation and repair the damage caused by his predecessor. Elsewhere, the Democratic Republic of Congo lost more than half a million hectares in 2022, primarily ...