Africa’s tropical rainforests are the lungs of the earth. And we’re ...
2016年11月17日 · Africa is home to around 18% of the world’s tropical forests. The second largest tropical forest on the planet is located in the Congo Basin in central Africa and extends for around 3 million square kilometres – which is larger than the entire land mass of Argentina.
Nature: Map of African forests highlights most vulnerable | World ...
2021年4月29日 · Much of the conversation surrounding the ecological benefits of tropical rainforests focuses on South America's Amazon. However, the forests of Central Africa are just as important. While the Amazon is the largest contiguous rainforest in the world, Central Africa's rainforests are the world's second largest, Nature reported. They store more ...
How to preserve Africa's forests and build a green economy
2021年6月25日 · The first major reason is that Africa uses around 90% of the wood harvested for producing fuel wood and charcoal, for heating and cooking. In contrast, the EU uses most of its of its wood (75%) for industrial purposes, such as for pulp and packaging, and wood construction. The second reason is that Africa’s timber exports come in the form of ...
4 vital steps to protect the world’s remaining rainforests
2020年12月4日 · The Amazon is undoubtedly the world’s largest single rainforest covering 6.7 million kilometres at present, hosting up to 10% of the world’s biodiversity in one single forest. Others include the Congo rainforest in Central Africa, the second largest rainforest, as well as Southeast Asian Rainforests covering Indonesia, Laos and Cambodia.
How African palm oil boosts livelihoods and protect forests
2022年11月2日 · It thrives in the same warm, damp equatorial climate as some of the planet’s most biodiverse and carbon-rich tropical forests. The challenge for Africa is to avoid the mistakes made in South-East Asia where the palm oil industry was responsible for at least 39% of tropical forest loss (2.4 million hectares) on the island of Borneo from 2000 ...
What the Amazon rainforest tells us about globalization
2018年11月8日 · At 670 million hectares, the Amazon rainforest is still easily the world’s largest rainforest – larger than Western Europe or India. You can wander in it for years, without ever seeing its edge (as some discoverers sadly found out). But in the last few decades, the rainforest shrank by about 20% due to deforestation.
Deforestation 101: Everything you need to know - The World …
2022年10月11日 · The tropical rainforest in the Congo is the only one of the world’s big three tropical rainforests that can still be considered a strong net carbon sink. It sequesters more than 600 million tons more carbon annually than it releases, equal to about a third of the carbon dioxide emissions from all transportation in the U.S.
What are tropical glaciers and how is climate change affecting …
2023年10月26日 · Tropical glaciers occur in high mountain ranges in the tropics where rain turns into snow due to low temperatures - but the few left around the world are shrinking due to rising temperatures. The ‘Eternity Glaciers’ in Indonesia could melt completely by 2026, with serious implications for the regional ecosystem, the livelihoods of local ...
Costa Rica has doubled its tropical rainforests in just a few …
2019年6月13日 · The National Forestry Fund was established in recognition that a healthy rainforest provides numerous benefits, which include removing and storing CO2 from the atmosphere, and water filtration. Tropical rainforests also harbour unknown quantities of natural resources that could be used to develop pharmaceuticals and natural medicines.
Why are Africa’s raptors in decline? - The World Economic Forum
2024年2月15日 · They may be apex predators, but Africa’s birds of prey are being steadily wiped out. Populations of 42 African raptor species have declined so significantly over the past 40 years – by almost 90% – that two-thirds of them are now at risk of extinction , a new study published in Nature Ecology and Evolution finds.