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A River Runs Through It
Jaap van der Waarde shares insights on balancing development and conservation in the Congo River Basin.
The Congo River Basin includes six countries and covers approximately 3.7 million square kilometers, making it the world's second-largest rainforest basin behind the Amazon. Like the Amazon, in practical terms, it is vital to the health of the planet. Also like the Amazon, scientists and conservationists worry that the Basin's ecology could tip if its rainforests are seriously degraded.
Unlike the Amazon, however, the immediate threat to the ecological integrity of the Congo Basin is not…
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