Total human impact footprints of first-cut roads reached up to 1,923 hectares per kilometer in the Brazilian Amazon, 272 ...

The deforestation and forest degradation associated with the secondary roads also varied greatly across regions. In the Congo Basin, deforestation associated with secondary roads was 31.5 times ...

The Congo Basin rainforest is the second-largest tropical ... governments and NGOs to better protect critical areas from deforestation and forest degradation. More information: Bart Slagter ...

Since world leaders pledged to halt and reverse global deforestation at the UN Climate Change Conference 2021 in Glasgow an area of rainforest the size of Denmark has been lost, harming nature, people ...

After a century of decreased sightings, reports of a long-necked water monster the size of a hippopotamus are once again ...

The Congo Basin spans 3.4 million square kilometres ... Some areas are also affected by illegal deforestation, which is often difficult to detect. To address this, conservationists are turning ...

We found four Congo Basin countries, as well as Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Côte d’Ivoire to be most at risk in terms of deforestation from agricultural expansion. These countries average 58% ...

But the park, which is part of the 60 per cent Congo basin rainforest found in DRC ... Initiative Against Organised Crime (GI-TOC) shows deforestation has doubled over the last decade, losing ...

A recently burnt-down patch of forest in the vicinity of Yangambi in the central Congo Basin. In the background is the edge of the primary forest. The owner has planted a range of crops ...