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 green ...

Setting up the world’s biggest giant tropical forest reserve in the Congo Basin is a step towards conserving the area and ...

The Dominican Republic joined the International Bamboo and Rattan Organization on Thursday as the group's 52nd member state.

Environmentalists report increased illegal logging in Congo’s tropical forests controlled by Rwandan-backed M23 rebels.

Jilin Chemical Fiber is to scale up production of man-made cellulosic fibres containing increasing levels of recycled content ...

Just outside Kyoto, the Sagano Bamboo Forest isn't your typical woodland. Instead of towering oaks or pines, you'll find thousands of giant bamboo stalks swaying in the breeze, creating a ...

To combat this, farmers in the village of Madi are planting bamboo forests along the banks of streams that block floods and stop soil erosion. “Once the rainy season starts, we are afraid to close our ...

Bamboo forests exhibit extremely significant capabilities for phytolith carbon sequestration. The elucidation of forest age and bedrock effects on the soil PhytOC accumulation will be essential to ...

tropical rain forest and bamboo forest. On the last hill the landscape unfolds beneath us, taking in the vast planes between Uganda, Rwanda and Congo, with the Virunga volcanoes dominating the view.

Mountain gorillas live only in the dense forests on and around the Virunga mountains in Rwanda, Uganda, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo ... live high up in bamboo forests.

“We were pleasantly surprised that Johor has such a vast bamboo forest, complete with beautiful decorations for photo opportunities,” he said, likening the forest to those in South Korea.

So, farmers in the village of Madi are planting bamboo forests along the banks of streams that block floods and stop soil erosion. “Once the rainy season starts, we are afraid to close our eyes at ...