Africa needs its forests for sustainable development, poverty reduction, food security, and to make the continent more ...

The government of the Democratic Republic of Congo passed ... housing 50% of Africa's tropical forests. However, the country has also been gripped by conflict. This has already disrupted conservation ...

So far, the Congo Basin has been less severely ravaged by international business interests than the forests of South America and ... threatening some of central Africa's prize conservation areas.

Last year, the U.S. Treasury Department imposed sanctions on four individuals in South Africa for transferring ... border into the mountainous forests of eastern Congo. In 2021, the ADF was ...

In the far northeast of South Africa, the park borders Mozambique ... Odzala protects a portion of the Congo Basin rain forest, often called the "second lungs" of the world (after the Amazon).

For example, Massi Virgilio, a fruit fly expert working in the Democratic Republic of the Congo ... South Africa-Mozambique border [Courtesy of Ruan Booysen] As fascinating as the world of forest ...

The Dja, and other forests in Central Africa’s Congo Basin, are a breadbasket for ... PHOTO/REUTERS But unlike recent trends in South America and Southeast Asia commodity crop expansion in ...

Africa is home to 13 percent of the world’s biodiversity and 20 percent of its forests, making it a crucial ... including the Democratic Republic of Congo, Zambia, Zimbabwe and Madagascar.

A huge rainforest stretching across the heart of Africa is quietly ... the Democratic Republic of Congo, the Republic of Congo, Equatorial Guinea, and Gabon. The forest covers an area of around ...