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Deforestation rate. 311,000 ha or 1,200 sq mi annually; 0.2% [ 1] Main causes. Fuelwood and charcoal collection, artisanal and small-scale logging, industrial logging, clearing for agriculture, and road construction. [ 2][ 3] Deforestation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is an environmental conflict of international importance. [ 4]
With annual forest loss of 0.3% during the 2000s, [5] the region had the lowest deforestation rate of any major tropical forest zone. [6] From 2015 to 2019, the rate of deforestation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo doubled. [7] In 2021, deforestation of the Congolese rainforest increased by 5%. [8]
Between 2000 and 2014 the DRC lost an average of 570,000 hectares (0.2%) of rainforest to deforestation per year, with the highest amount of deforestation coming between 2011 and 2014. Deforestation is the primary cause of biodiversity reduction and species loss globally, through habitat loss and fragmentation.
Leaders from countries with the largest tropical forest basins are meeting in the Republic of Congo Thursday to work together to protect the forests from deforestation and destruction. Delegates ...
Countries that are home to the world's three major rainforests agreed on Saturday to cooperate to overcome deforestation and safeguard biodiversity but fell short of a concrete alliance to protect ...
Data from Global Forest Watch, an initiative that uses satellites to track deforestation, showed that annual tree cover loss in Virunga rose over 22% to 6,804 hectares in 2021 and a further 7,255 ...
[19] [20] In 2021, the deforestation rate of the Congolese rainforest increased by 5%. [21] An industrial logging operation in the Congo Basin. From 2015 to 2019, the rate of deforestation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo doubled. [22] The Global Forest Atlas estimated that the logging industry covers from 44 to 66 million hectares of ...
This amounts to an average annual deforestation rate of 1.14%. [39] Between 2000 and 2005 the rate accelerated to 1.43% per annum. However, with a long history of policy and laws towards environmental protection, deforestation rates of primary cover have decreased 35% since the end of the 1990s thanks to a strong history of conservation ...