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Forbidding oil drilling, reducing poaching played crucial role in the achievement. The event is considered as a big win to Democratic Republic of the Congo as the Salonga forest is the biggest protected rainforest in Africa. [49] African intact rainforests absorb CO 2 better than the rainforests of South America and Asia. [50]
A Sapele tree in the Republic of the Congo. The Congolian rainforest is the world's second-largest tropical forest, after the Amazon rainforest.It covers over 500,000,000 acres (2,000,000 km 2) across six countries and contains a quarter of the world's remaining tropical forest.
The Democratic Republic of the Congo is the only country in the world in which bonobos are found in the wild. Bas-Congo landscape. The wildlife of the Democratic Republic of the Congo includes its flora and fauna, comprising a large biodiversity in rainforests, seasonally flooded forests and grasslands.
Under the denuded slopes of Mount Nyiragongo volcano in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, traders in Kibati town bartered over sacks of charcoal, a product of deforestation that an ongoing ...
A recent study in the DRC revealed that almost all of the animals are taken from the Congo each year, at 93% of all live animals there are in the forest are extracted for bush meat, whereas a sustainable rate would be 20%. [15] This is a huge amount compared to the Amazon where bush meat is hunted at only 3% the rate of the Congo.
Democratic Republic of the Congo map of Köppen climate classification zones. Climate ranges from tropical rain forest in the Congo River basin to tropical wet-and-dry in the southern uplands to tropical highland in eastern areas above 2,000 metres (6,600 ft) in elevation. [1] In general, temperatures and humidity are quite high. [1]
The protected areas in the Democratic Republic of the Congo include national parks, biosphere reserves, wildlife reserves, nature reserves, scientific reserves, community reserves, and hunting reserves.
About 2,040 species are known from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, [1] 181 of which are endemic. [2] The majority of species occur in the Congolese rainforest - Western Congolian swamp forests , Eastern Congolian swamp forests , Central Congolian lowland forests , Northeastern Congolian lowland forests and it's transitions to forest ...