This map story produced by RFUK and our local partners in DR Congo and the Republic of Congo highlights the growing risks from logging and the extractive industries to the Cuvette Centrale peatlands, one of the largest carbon sinks on earth, and explains why local communities hold the key to protecting it.
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Roads to Ruin: The emerging impacts of infrastructure development in the Congo Basin forests
Research by RFUK reveals the growing extent, and impact, of transport and energy infrastructure development in the Congo Basin – which is on its way to becoming a major driver of deforestation in the world’s second largest rainforest.