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The Congo Basin faces growing pressures from logging, mining, oil and gas development, agriculture, infrastructure and urban expansion, compounded by climate change and governance challenges.

Congo Basin under-researched and ‘chronically underinvested’, new report says

Deforestation, weak governance and extractive pressures also threaten this vital ecosystem, scientists said in the landmark COP30 report

  • Sheree Bega
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