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Africa has the highest rate of forest loss in the world—what the G20 can do about it

Africa needs its forests for sustainable development, poverty reduction, food security, and to make the continent more resilient to climate change. They take up 23% of the continent. At 674 million ...
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Study finds African rainforests now emit more carbon than they absorb

Africa’s great rainforests were long treated as a quiet ally in the climate fight, soaking up vast quantities of carbon dioxide and helping to steady a warming planet. New research now shows that ...
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Africa’s forests have switched from absorbing to emitting carbon, new study finds

Professor Heiko Balzter, Dr Nezha Acil (right) and University of Leicester colleagues at a zoobotanical garden at the Museu Emilio Goeldi in Belém, with trees and animals from the Amazon.
National Catholic Reporter

In Africa's Congo Basin, Indigenous peoples lose homes to conservation efforts

Bernard Messono today lives by the roadside. A 28-year-old Indigenous Baka man from Elango village in Cameroon's East Region, he was forced out of his natural home in the forest by encroaching logging ...
The Spectator AustraliaOpinion

Shoot an elephant to save Africa

Africa’s elephants are out of control, and the continent’s people, and plants, are paying the price. Far too many ...
Reuters

Rich world should pay Africa to preserve forests

* Congo Basin seen valuable in climate change battle * Forest preservation costs African nations * Countries may not endorse deal without compensation By Tansa Musa YAOUNDE, Nov 30 (Reuters) - The ...
The Conversation

Humans lived in African rainforests 150,000 years ago, far earlier than believed – new research

Eleanor Scerri receives funding from The Max Planck Society. Eslem Ben Arous does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this ...
New Scientist

Africa’s forests are now emitting more CO2 than they absorb

African forests are now emitting more carbon dioxide than they absorb, a fundamental shift that will make it more difficult for the world to cut its net emissions to zero. Forests and shrubby ...
Anadolu Ajansi

Africa's forests become net carbon source, threatening planet's climate balance: Study

Forests alongside oceans represent world's foremost carbon sinks, where plants store absorbed carbon dioxide, Prof. Doganay Tolunay tells Anadolu Deforestation rates in South America surpass those in ...
IFLScience

There Could Be 10,000 More African Forest Elephants Than We Thought – But They’re Still Critically Endangered

Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in zoology from the University of Reading and a master’s in wildlife documentary production from the University of Salford.View full profile Eleanor has an ...
The Conversation

World’s largest insect faces extinction: how to save two species of Africa’s giant Goliath beetle

Professor of Ecology, The Rivers State University of Science and Technology One of Africa’s giant beetles is just one step away from extinction. New research has found that one species of the enormous ...