Exploring the Cuvete Centrale: How do People, Plants and Birds Function and Interact in the Democratic Republic o Congo’s Peatland Forests?

摘要

The Congo Basin houses Earth’s largest complex of tropical peatlands, covering over 14.6 million hectares (the size of England) and extending across the Democratc Republic of Congo (DRC) and its neighbour, the Republic of Congo. First discovered in 2017 by Greta Dargie, Simon Lewis and others, the Cuvete Centrale peatlands store 30.6 petagrams of carbon, equivalent to three years of anthropogenic emissions (Dargie et al., 2017). Protectng this ecosystem is vital, therefore, in ofsetng global carbon emissions and mitgatng climate change.