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A huge rainforest stretching ... Beyond its biodiversity, the Congo Basin plays an essential role in absorbing carbon dioxide, helping to stabilise global temperatures and slow the effects of ...

The Congo Basin rainforest is the second-largest tropical ... "This may include promoting Reduced Impact Logging for Climate (RILC) practices such as improved road design, preventing the expansion ...

In the Kinshasa Botanical Garden, a troupe of cardboard animals — monkeys, a gorilla, leopards, a giraffe — stand at ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech ... that the country is home to the second biggest rainforest in the world. The Congo Basin serves as one of the planet’s “lungs ...