Currently, the RoC has one oil refinery in the coastal city of Pointe-Noire, which has a capacity of 1 million tons per year. However, it only processes 600,000 tons annually while the country's needs ...
This has “huge implications” for the DRC’s forests, he added, since the country hosts 60% of the Congo Basin rainforest, the world’s second-largest tropical forest, after the Amazon, and ...
Sarah Tossens, a Ph.D. researcher at Belgium’s University of Liège, is studying forest ecosystems in the Republic of the Congo and Cameroon to learn about the presence of leopards and golden ...
High-level forest summits are coming up thick and fast. Gabon's One Forest Summit is set to get under way on 1 March, while, in the neighbouring Republic of the Congo, Denis Sassou Nguesso is ...
Some challenges remain global in nature, but many solutions require local knowledge and understanding: the causes and consequences of deforestation in countries with dry forests like Burkina Faso or ...
The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is the second largest country in Africa and one of the continent’s most important for nature conservation. Dense forests and woodlands cover more than half of ...