A UK-backed deal to protect the world’s second largest rainforest is struggling, just over a year since it was signed and amid rising concerns over deforestation, corruption and political instability. Back in April 2016, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) signed a landmark deal to protect its vast rainforest. Stopping deforestation there
Scheme To Protect Second Largest Rainforest Threatened By Corruption, Politics
Africa’s Congo Basin rainforest is one of the few pristine forest environments left on earth and home to gorillas, forest elephants and bonobos.