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Category: Congo Basin region

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TRIDOM – one of the largest trans-boundary wildlife areas in Africa faces critical new threats. Far from protesting, conservationists are looking to cash-in on the destruction

Posted on 14 January 202214 January 2022

TRIDOM faces major threats from mining and hydropower. WWF hopes to cash in by getting the mining companies to fund conservation.

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Guest Post: Facing a burning crisis

Posted on 19 September 201918 October 2019

Tal Harris is Greenpeace Africa’s International Communications Coordinator. He submitted this Guest Post about the fires in the Amazon, and in the Congo Basin.

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The Brazzaville Declaration: Words not action on peatland protection in the Congo Basin. And the strange case of the Congo Basin Blue Fund and the Brazzaville Foundation

Posted on 27 March 20187 April 2020

Last week, the third meeting of the Partners of the Global Peatlands Initiative took place in Brazzaville, capital of the Republic of Congo. After the meeting, the United Nations Environment Programme, one of the organisers and funder of the meeting, put out a press release announcing that a “historic agreement” had been signed “to protect…

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WWF scandal (part 8): WWF and the loggers in the Congo Basin

Posted on 3 May 20174 March 2019

“For WWF, partnering with Indigenous Peoples is an essential part of our conservation work.” This sentence comes from WWF’s latest newsletter from its international forest and climate team. The article is written by Jolly Sassa Kiuka and Flory Botamba who work for WWF in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

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Conservation efforts in the Congo Basin are “mostly failing” says new Rainforest Foundation UK report

Posted on 28 April 201614 January 2022

Conservation efforts in the Congo Basin are mostly failing to protect forests and biodiversity write Rainforest Foundation UK in a new report.

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