Oil and gas exploration in the Congo Basin poses a threat to the region’s rainforests, which are considered crucial to the climate because they are a vast carbon sink
Global efforts to protect Africa’s rainforests have failed to halt the rapid destruction of one of the world’s last intact tropical forests, a new study has found.
They are also home to millions of Indigenous people and other communities, and they are a huge source of biodiversity. One of every five species on the planet can be found in the Congo Basin, experts say. “If this trend continues, we risk losing the largest remaining intact forest in the tropics, along with its immense and irreplaceable value for biodiversity, climate and people.”
Two countries in the Congo Basin region – Gabon and the Republic of Congo – were able to reduce their rate of deforestation last year. But the rate increased in the other four countries, including a dramatic rise of 71 per cent in the Central African Republic and 28 per cent in Cameroon.
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