3 million square kilometres in several countries, including about a third in the Democratic Republic of Congo, and the rest in Gabon, Congo, Cameroon and Central Africa.Just like the Amazon, the forests of the
Congo Basin absorb tons of carbon dioxide (CO2) in trees and peat marshes - seen by experts as a key way to combat climate change.
Phylogenetic analysis showed this strain is closer to MPXV isolates from the West African clade than from the
Congo Basin clade (Figure, panel B).
The
Congo basin forest, the second largest in the world after the Amazon, has been relatively protected by its inaccessibility, but environmentalists say it is highly vulnerable and its peat could easily be destroyed.
Among their topics are understanding glacial retreat in the Indian Himalaya: historical trends and field studies from a large glacier, mitigating climate change impacts through treating and managing low quality water for irrigation in Pakistan, the
Congo Basin's shrinking watersheds and potential consequences for local communities, an approach to sustainable watershed management: case studies on enhancing sustainability with challenges of water in western Maharashtra, and common duckweed as a model system for assessing the impact of climate change.
The objective of this paper is to evaluate the potential of existing remote sensing based products to present an overview of the recent dynamics of forest cover changes in Cameroon and to place it in the regional context of the
Congo Basin.
Extreme lightning has also been spotted over Argentina, Africa's
Congo Basin and the oceans.
The black rhinos were once found abundantly throughout sub-Saharan Africa with the exception of the
Congo Basin.
Department of Agriculture's McGovern-Dole school feeding program, which works with the Republic of the Congo's government to provide hot lunches to schoolchildren and develop mechanized agriculture in participating school communities, and USAID's Central African Regional Program for the Environment (CARPE), which serves to protect and sustainably manage the rich biodiversity of the
Congo Basin. Additionally, the United States supports health care efforts to combat HIV, tuberculosis, and malaria, and collaborates with the Republic of the Congo on health-related research.
The tropical rainforest zone of the
Congo Basin constitutes 45% of the forested areas of Central Africa and has 22% of the entire continent's forests.
Much of Equateur - whose 7.5 million residents account for about 10 percent of the country's population - is covered by trees forming part of the
Congo Basin forest, often called the planet's "second lung'' after the Amazon.
"In the
Congo basin (above), we found a decrease in rainfall and reports that shipping on the major rivers is now more complicated.
Under this, both firms have formed a joint team to study the potential of the non-associated gas present in the offshore Lower
Congo Basin. ENI CEO Claudio Descalzi on Nov.
The paper assesses forestry practices and policies in three target regions--the
Congo Basin in Africa, the Amazon Basin in South America, and Southeast Asia--and outlines obstacles to implementing multiple-use forest management in these areas.
Congo is one of the six countries in Central Africa that is covered by the forests of the
Congo Basin, the second tropical forest in the world after the Amazon, in South America.
