This is the first article in our four-part series “The Congo Basin peatlands.” The notion seemed straightforward: A massive swamp in the Congo Basin relatively unknown to most of the world, apart from a few human communities and a bewildering array of wildlife, could be the ideal spot for a carbon-rich soil known as peat. […]
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WWF has come under fire at a U.S. congressional hearing over its funding of rangers who allegedly carried out rights abuses against Indigenous peoples and local communities in Africa and Asia. Members of the House Committee on Natural Resources and former U.N. special rapporteur on human rights and the environment, John Knox, said at the […]
The Congo Basin is considered as one the world’s lungs because of its ability to absorb large amounts of carbon, which mitigates the effects of the climate crisis in Africa a continent highly vulnerable to the crisis. Despite this, the Congolese government wants to lift a ban on logging t.