Congo basin, basin of the Congo River, lying astride the Equator in west-central Africa. It is the world's second largest river basin (next to that of the Amazon ), comprising an area of more than 1.3 million square miles (3.4 million square km). The vast drainage area of the Congo River includes almost the whole of the Republic of the …

Thirty billion metric tons of carbon is almost as much as is held by the entire Congo Basin rainforest — the second-largest on the planet — in less than 4% of the land area. It has accumulated ...

Reducing Logging Impacts in the Congo Basin. The Congo Basin is the world's largest carbon sink. Lower-impact forestry methods used here can have a significant impact on global climate outcomes. …

Nearly 90 percent of Congo's 89.5 million people rely on firewood and charcoal for cooking, according to World Bank estimates. Congo lost more than 1.2 million acres of primary forest in 2021 ...

A large and growing percentage of the Congo Basin is under concession to logging and mining companies. Such industries bring large groups of people to the forest and with that come their need for food, including bushmeat and fuelwood. See more

Here are 10 stories that Mongabay published in 2021 that will help bring the state of the Congo Basin into sharper focus. 1. Gabon becomes first African country to get paid for protecting its ...

The basin's forests are spread over Cameroon, Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, and Gabon, a region with more than 150 ...

The Congo Basin Region (CBR) has many remarkable natural resources, including many endemic species as well as megafauna. Conservation interests in the region must be balanced against the development goals of countries that rely heavily on the export of such minerals as oil, gold, diamonds, manganese, iron ore, and wood products.

The biggest drivers of deforestation in the Congo rainforest over the past 20 years have been small-scale subsistence agriculture, clearing for charcoal and fuelwood, urban expansion, and mining. Industrial logging has been the biggest driver of forest degradation. However it's important not to understate the impact of logging in the region.

The Congo Basin, named after the Congo River that runs through it, ... A 2022 assessment by the Forest Declaration Platform found that oil, gas, and mining permits impact up to 48 percent of intact forest …

The Congo Basin is the biggest river basin in Africa, and second largest in the world after the Amazon Basin, [4,5]. In its centre is the Democratic Republic of the Congo, landlocked except for a 40 km coastline on the west. The Congo River is the deepest in the world, with recorded depths of 230m.

much of the Congo River basin; C. inga, new species, is known only from the lower Congo River in the vicinity of Inga Rapids; and C. sagitta, new species, occurs in the Lualaba River basin of Zambia in the southeastern portion of the Congo ... River rapids within AXMIN Ndassima mining concession, 6u139000N, 20u459390E. 478 Copeia 2011, No. …

The elevations within the basin range from over 4000 m.a.s.l in the Eastern parts to less than zero at the river mouth where it joins the ocean (Fig. 2).The basin is mostly flat (0–2%) to undulating (2–8%) with an average slope of 4.5% for the entire basin (Fig. 2 (b)).The undulating terrain is sparsely interspersed with gently rolling hills (8–15%).

However, international interest in the region is growing. Minerals are a well-known source of conflict in the region, leading to environmental degradation and …

The Congo Rainforest. By Rhett A. Butler. August 1, 2020. The Congo is the Earth's second largest river by volume, draining an area of 3.7 million square kilometers (1.4 million square miles) known as the Congo Basin. Much of the basin is covered by rich tropical rainforests and swamps. Together these ecosystems make up the bulk of Central ...

Interview Highlights. On how "artisanal" cobalt mines continue to operate in the DRC — despite being illegal. Technically, under the law, there should not be artisanal mining taking place in...

Smallholder clearing in the Democratic Republic of the Congo alone accounted for nearly two-thirds of total forest loss in the basin. Selective logging is the second most significant disturbance driver, contributing roughly 10% of regional gross forest disturbance area and more than 60% of disturbance area in Gabon.

Congo Basin rainforest may be gone by 2100, study finds. by Morgan Erickson-Davis on 7 November 2018. Satellite data indicate the Congo Basin lost an area of forest larger than Bangladesh between ...

The Congo River Basin, home to 75 million people, is subject to recurrent flood and drought events, which are expected to worsen as a result of climate change. This study aims to assess future modifications of the hydrological regime of the Congo River and the socio–economic impacts of these projected changes for three future periods: …

The first democratically elected president of the Congo [in 1960], Patrice Lumumba, made a pledge that the country's immense mineral riches and resources would be used for the benefit of the ...

The "State of the Forests of the Congo Basin" report is published periodically to present the state of the forest ecosystems of Central Africa and how they are managed. Following the 2015 edition devoted entirely to climate change, the 2021 report takes up several themes and is presented in four parts. The report begins by examining the state of the resource, …

Chemistry. Earth. Society. Environment. Crucial Congo rainforest faces growing threats from logging and mining. The area of …

The river, which is also known as Zaire River, has its deepest point at approximately 220 meters (720 feet). This depth makes the Congo River about 19.5 meters (64 feet) deeper than the second deepest river in the world; Yangtze River in China. By discharge volume, it is the second-largest river in the world by after the Amazon River in …

The Congo River is the second only to the Amazon in terms of size and freshwater species diversity. The basin covers 4 million km2. The basin has over 1200 fish species, 400 mammal species, 1,000 ...

Basoko, Democratic Republic of Congo — In January, officials ordered Xiang Jiang Mining to cease operations near the Congo River. Nine months later, the mine is still open – and residents are still protesting. Not a day goes by without the motorized sound of dredgers blasting through Charles Baima's village in Basoko, around 195 ...

If the Amazon is the lungs of the world, then the Congo basin is its beating heart. This vast region in central Africa is home to the world's second-largest – and most pristine – tropical ...

The Congo River is a long, arcing river with a basin that spans nine countries in West-Central Africa. This extensive body of water provides food, water, medicine and transport to about 75...

The Elila River Catchment (ERC) is one of the upper parts of the CB confined between latitudes (-2.505250° to −4.159809°S) and longitudes (26.063879° to 28.440020°E) (Fig. 1).The ERC extends into the South Kivu and Maniema provinces of the DRC and covers approximately 1.31 % of the Upper Congo sub-basin (Mushi et al. …

The forests of the Congo Basin removed an estimated 0.61 net gigatons of CO2 equivalent emissions per year between 2001 and 2019—nearly six times the net …

Abstract. This report aims at providing stakeholders with a good analysis of the potential impacts of mining development on the Congo Basin forests. It is one of a series of outputs prepared during a two-year exercise to analyze and better understand the deforestation dynamics in the Basin. It presents the main findings of an analysis of the ...