Lee White

  • A view of the felled forest after some 850 hectares has been destroyed to plant oil palms in the heart of the Congo Basin forest near Kisangani in the north eastern Democratic Republic of Congo on September 25, 2019. – There is strong pressure on the forest in the Congo Basin. Congo, second “green lung” after the Amazon whose safeguard is vital in the fight against global warming. In 2018, the DRC lost 481,248 hectares (4,812 km2) of tropical primary forest. (Photo by SAMIR TOUNSI / AFP) (Photo by SAMIR TOUNSI/AFP via Getty Images)Commentary

    Earth’s ‘second lung’ is under threat. Losing the Congo Basin forests would set the fight against climate change back 20 years

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