CongoPeat
Past, Present and Future of the Peatlands of the Central Congo Basin
Credit: Kevin McElvaney/Greenpeace
About the Project
In 2017 our research team revealed that the world's largest tropical peatland is located in the geographical heart of Africa. Over 10,000 years peat has been building up. Today the central Congo peatlands store 30 billion tonnes of carbon, requiring careful protection.
CongoPeat brings together an interdisciplinary team of leading experts to study this newly discovered yet threatened ecosystem.
📢 UNEP-WCMC has published a report summarising five years of research into the Congo Basin peatlands, under the @CongoPeat scientific programme
Learn more ➡️ https://tinyurl.com/28kmayvf
#PeatlandsMatter #CongoBasin
📣 Announcing the launch of the Science Panel for the Congo Basin (SPCB)!
The SPCB is a first-of-its-kind independent panel convening leading scientists from and across the region to assess the state of the #CongoBasin.
Learn more ➡️ https://sciencepanelforthecongobasin.org/
Contact us
- Tel.: +44 (0)113 343 3341
- Email: admin@congopeat.net
- Twitter: @CongoPeat
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