Why is this spot in the Congo attracting so much attention? | Mongabay Explains
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- Опубликовано: 1 дек 2021
- In 2017, a team of scientists from the U.K. and the Republic of Congo announced the discovery of a massive peatland the size of England in the Congo Basin.
Sometimes called the Cuvette Centrale, this peatland covers 145,529 square kilometers (56,189 square miles) in the northern Republic of Congo and the Democratic Republic of Congo. It holds about 20 times as much carbon as the U.S. releases from burning fossil fuels in a year.
Today, the Congo Basin peatlands are relatively intact while supporting nearby human communities and many wildlife species, but agriculture, oil and gas exploration, and logging are serious threats.
Scientists, conservationists and governments are now looking for ways to protect and better understand the peatlands for the benefit of the people and animals and the future of the global climate.
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The carbon is irrelevant. I hate to see beautiful tracts of nature destroyed purely for money. It's a big world with vast resources. That place should be aggressively protected
That’s exactly what I’ve been saying for years! If we figure out how to balance the carbon footprint, but still lose the world’s remaining tropical forests, we are still completely screwed. The loss of biodiversity, the impact it will have on weather patterns and ocean currents, and the loss we will all suffer in our souls make these forests so much more important than simply being carbon sinks.
Protect the Congo at all costs.
I found this looking for a new discovery of the mokul bembi. Scientist say it's a living dinosaur supposed to have been extinct 100 million years ago. Has any heard of this?
It's a species of a black rhino.
Now the J'ba Fofi the giant congolose spider, now that is nightmare fuel if anything :D
I found this because of a video saying as much.
No scientist says this because no dinosaurs exist anymore. Cryptozoology is pseudoscience aka NOT REAL
I was hoping to see giant spider....
I never ever ever hope to see a giant spider
Me too
great production Mongabay!
note: "Central Africa's peatlands are the largest and most intact in all the world's tropics" 4:34
Deserves more views of topics like these
Now they're gonna rape that swamp for the peat
They like to say discover 😆
Tpsf are so intriguing
Why is so much of Africa undeveloped and backwards? It is no more isolated than Australia.
👍❤️
Did they also check for methane in these areas?
No Brontosaurus then ?
No. They're gone.
Thats The Forest Where The J'ba Fofi Lives
ITS same Like in west Papua. Indonesia has exploitation all Nature resourses in West Papua.🙏🏾
What is discovery about this.
When there are people already living in such places. Some of these forest are sacred to us as African both for scientific and spiritual reasons.
The interference for monetary gains is affecting the natural state of our lives.
Come to Africa, understand our culture, respect our culture, respect the limits to our natural resources😔😔.
Not even 30 sec. can pass in any documentation today without mentioning the carbon religion.
The peat belongs to the people of congo