Intact forest landscapes (IFLs) are areas of natural land cover that are large and undisturbed enough to retain all their native plant and animal communities — defined at 500 square kilometers.

Ten Central African countries, including Rwanda, have agreed to take part in a regional initiative to monitor the Congo Basin, one of the world’s largest primary rainforests. The other countries ...

More than half of the Congo Basin’s forest cover, an estimated 110-150 ... Logging concessions are the biggest land use in the DRC and surrounding countries while community lands account for ...

Data from Global Forest Watch, an initiative that uses satellites to track deforestation, showed that annual tree cover loss in Virunga rose over 22% to 6,804 hectares in 2021 and a further 7,255 ...

DR Congo Conflict Fuels Forest Loss. More. ... or plant crops in the newly open land. ... showed that annual tree cover loss in Virunga rose over 22% to 6,804 hectares in 2021 and a further 7,255 ...

DAKAR, Senegal – Congo, home to one of the largest old-growth rainforests on Earth, is auctioning off vast amounts of land in a push to become "the new destination for oil investments,” part ...