The Congo basin is the green heart of Africa, home to the second largest tropical rainforest in the world and one of the planet’s most important areas of biodiversity. Mai-Ndombe is a vital piece of that landscape. It’s here that worrying levels of deforestation and degradation are recorded, due to slash and burn agriculture, charcoal production, uncontrolled forest fires, logging, and Kinshasa’s demand for fuel and wood.
Through a jurisdictional REDD+ program, the Government of the DRC, WWF, and our local partners seek to confront the underlying causes of deforestation and degradation through an integrated green development vision.
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