A ministerial commission in the Democratic Republic of Congo has recommended terminating 30 forest concessions due to alleged irregularities, it said in a preliminary report published on Tuesday.

Reuters. The volcanic Mount Nyiragongo stands within the Virunga National Park near Goma, the Democratic Republic of Congo, in this satellite image taken on June 26, 2024.

The government of the Democratic Republic of Congo passed a law in January 2025 to lead efforts to establish the largest tropical forest reserve in the world. It will be set up as a 2,600km long ...

Analysis - The government of the Democratic Republic of Congo passed a law in January 2025 to lead efforts to establish the largest tropical forest reserve in the world. It will be set up as a 2 ...

Local climate activists in Congo are hoping Pope Francis’ visit will help spur action to protect the country’s rainforest from oil and gas interests. The Pope’s call to protect Congo’s ...

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The conservation, sustainable exploitation and management of forest sites in Central Africa, and in particular in Cameroon, Congo, Gabon and the Central African Republic, have since 2004 benefited ...

Following the mapping in 2017 of vast peatlands beneath the forest containing a staggering 30 billion tons of carbon, scientists now believe that the Congo Basin is the world's most vital ...

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. The Congo Basin, second only ...

The importance of the Congo Basin was first recognised at a political level in 1999, when African leaders met in Yaoundé, Cameroon, for the Yaoundé Forest Summit.

KINSHASA, Democratic Republic of Congo — The United States will work with local leaders here in the Congo River basin to ensure that planned fossil-fuel extraction won’t result in a climate ...

The Democratic Republic of the Congo will auction 30 oil and gas blocks in the Cuvette-Centrale Peatlands in the Congo Basin forest — the world’s largest ...