For climate researchers who track greenhouse gas exchanges between the forest and the atmosphere ... Lewis led a team several years ago to map the extent of the Congo Basin peatlands.

A study has revealed that the Miombo woodland stores far more carbon than people realized. That could mean that protecting ...

High-Resolution Global Maps of 21st-Century Forest cover change ... Conservation and conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo: The impacts of warfare, mining, and protected areas on deforestation.

The authors stress that peatlands are crucial carbon stores, holding more carbon than all the world’s forest biomass combined ... while the three inset maps below highlight chosen case studies in Peru ...

Other star attractions include the Congo Gorilla Forest, the seasonal butterfly garden ... heed the advice of past visitors and grab a map use the zoo's interactive map on its website.

“The war in the Democratic Republic of Congo had a large impact on elephant ... Wildlife Conservation Society. Photos of forest and savanah elephants, conservation survey and patrol teams in the DRC, ...

Yet, in recent years, one critical forest has continued to shine as a beacon of hope in the battle against climate change – the Congo Basin. Now, with an ambitious new initiative in the ...

which is home to about 60% of the forests in the Congo Basin, home to the largest expanse of tropical forest on earth. “All these viruses are viruses that have reservoirs in the forest.

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