In the lush rainforests of Africa’s Congo Basin, hundreds of thousands of indigenous people live as hunter gatherers, depending on the forest’s natural resources for their survival. Yet most have no ...
The Conversation: Africa’s rainforests are different. Why it matters that they’re protected
Around 2 million km² of Africa is covered by tropical rainforests. They are second only in extent to those in Amazonia, which cover around 6 million km². Rainforests are home to vast numbers of ...
Three thousand years ago (around 1000 BCE) several large sections of the Congo rainforest in central Africa suddenly vanished and became savannah. Scientists have long believed the loss of the forest ...
April 21 (UPI) --The dense tropical rainforest of Central Africa occupies more than 500 million acres, making it the second largest in the world. The belt of moist broadleaf forests hosts hundreds of ...
USA Today: African rainforests were home to humans much earlier than thought: 150,000 years ago
African rainforests were home to humans much earlier than thought: 150,000 years ago
Nestled on top of a volcano in Southeast Africa is a rainforest so hidden that experts think it has not been touched by a human being in modern times. Mount Lico sits in the northern plains of ...
Daily Maverick: If threatened and ignored Congo Basin rainforests vanish, ‘Africa is not viable’
The rainforests of the Congo Basin are Africa’s beating heart and if they vanish in the face of relentless slash-and-burn farming, the continent will no longer be “viable” because of lack of the ...
If threatened and ignored Congo Basin rainforests vanish, ‘Africa is not viable’
Nature: African forest maps reveal areas vulnerable to the effects of climate change
African forest maps reveal areas vulnerable to the effects of climate change