“The Congo River is the spine of our country,” says ... It travels 800 meters [875 yards] along the road and extends four miles into the forest. It was all bush when he bought it.

A tributary of the Congo River is even darker than the famous Rio ... The carbon enters the waters of Ruki from the surrounding forest. Organic material found on land is poured into the river ...

primarily from hydropower generated by the Congo River, promises to create a sustainable model of economic growth. One of the most exciting aspects of the DRC’s new forest reserve is its ...

Jordan Bita preferred to risk his life swimming across a roaring river than stay at home and be conscripted by rebels in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. The 25-year-old ... because I was ...

The Amazon showed the most severe destruction from follow-up road building, with an associated forest loss 305 times greater than that directly linked to first-cut roads. In the Congo Basin and ...

BAMEGOARD, Republic of Congo — In the Republic of Congo ... The forest is the forest. The river used to run through the forest. You can see that the landscape has been devastated, there ...

The Okapi Wildlife Reserve occupies about one-fifth of the Ituri forest in the north-east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The Congo river basin, of which the reserve and forest are a part, is ...

Lead the renewal of the Congo Basin Forest strategy and approach for a new generation of industrial and community forest concessions that deliver for people, nature and climate Invite and import ...

The 25-year-old clung on to a black bin bag with some possessions as he used the strong currents to navigate his way across the Rusizi river, which forms the border between DR Congo and Burundi.