The Amazon and its neighbours – the Orinoco and the Andean rainforest – account for 73.5 per cent of tropical forests still ... centred around the Congo River basin, due to traditional and ...

In response, conservationists are working to safeguard biodiversity strongholds such as tropical ... Many of these rainforests are household names, from the Amazon to the Congo to Australia's ...

However, what was noticeable by its absence from the agenda, despite support from Gabon and the Congo, was the inclusion of financing for protecting tropical rainforests. With the new IPCC report last ...