But Africa has the highest rate of forest loss in the world. About 3.9 million hectares of African forest—the size of about 381 million soccer fields—was destroyed every year between 2010 and ...

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In nearby David's Town, Borbor Kealeh has protected a small area of traditional forest for more than 40 years — as he says his parents did before him. "The love of the human side, and of the ...

The Congo Basin's hunter-gatherer people have the secret to living well with the forest. While doing fieldwork in 2020, I remember walking with Indigenous elders Ferdinand Mbita and Félix ...

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An estimated 2 million hectares of forest are destroyed every year in the Congo Basin. In 2022 alone, the DRC lost more than half a million hectares, 13 percent of global deforestation.

At least 37 people have been killed and several injured in wildfires that ravaged mountainous areas in the east of Algeria, according to the state-run Algeria Press Service (APS).

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They take up 23% of the continent. At 674 million hectares in extent, these forests occupy an area the same size as the Amazon rainforest. But Africa has the highest rate of forest loss in the world.