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The Congo Basin is the largest forest in Africa. More than 10,000 plant species can be found in and around the forest. [10] The humid forests cover 1.6 million km². [4] The Congo Basin is an important source of African teak, used for building furniture and flooring. An estimated 40 million people depend on these woodlands, surviving on ...
The Ubangi and Congo rivers join in the Tumba-Ngiri-Maindombe region to form a huge area of flooded forest covering more than 38,000 square kilometres (15,000 sq mi) that varies in size seasonally. [7] When the wetlands around Lake Télé in the Republic of the Congo are included, the area contains the largest body of fresh water in Africa. [8]
A Sapele tree in the Republic of the Congo. The Congolian rainforest is the world's second-largest tropical forest, after the Amazon rainforest. It covers over 500,000,000 acres (2,000,000 km 2) across six countries and contains a quarter of the world's remaining tropical forest.
It is bounded on the north by the Northern Congolian forest–savanna mosaic, and on the southwest by the Southern Congolian forest–savanna mosaic across the Congo River. The Albertine Rift mountains bound the Congo Basin on the east, and are home to the neighboring Albertine Rift montane forests ecoregion above 1500 meters elevation.
Mosaic of Congolian gallery forest, moist miombo woodland and savanna grassland in Lunda-Norte, northern Angola — Huntley (2019) The ecoregion is a mosaic of forest, savanna, and grassland. Semi-evergreen rainforest is found along the rivers that drain northwards into the Congo Basin, with open woodland, savanna, and grassland in the uplands.
The funds that do exist for the conservation and sustainable management of the Congo Basin, such as the Central African Forest Initiative (CAFI) or the Congo Basin Forest Partnership, are ...
The Science Panel for the Congo Basin, backed by the United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network, aims to issue a report in 2025 that offers the most detailed scientific assessment to ...
Epulu River flowing through Okapi Wildlife Reserve, Democratic Republic of the Congo. The Guineo-Congolian region is a tropical, lowland rain forest area, typified by the forests of the Congo Basin. The terrain is generally under 1,000 m (3,300 ft) and the annual rainfall is typically in the range 1,600 to 2,000 mm (63 to 79 in). [1]