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First Peatlands National Workshop in DRC – a major step towards peatlands protection and sustainable management Posted at 14:38h in Event by Julie Van Offelen0 Comments0 Likes Within the Congo Basin, the Cuvette Central Basin contains the world’s largest tropical peatland, covering an area of ​​145,000 km2 and with an estimated stock of 30 gigatons […]

With a 145,500-square-kilometer swath of peatlands in Central Africa newly identified as an important storage of carbon, researchers, decision-makers and practitioners are now discussing the likelihood of and means for keeping this water-logged area intact. “There’s a lot of carbon in those peatlands,” says Dr. Greta Dargie, a forest ecologist who co-authored recent articles with […]

Carbon-rich peatlands could store three years’ worth of world’s total fossil fuel emissions, say scientists Scientists have discovered the world’s largest tropical peatland in the remote Congo swamps, estimated to store the equivalent of three year’s worth of the world’s total fossil fuel emissions. Researchers mapped the Cuvette Centrale peatlands in the central Congo basin […]

In 2017, researchers reported the existence of the largest tropical peatland complex in the world in the Congo Basin. In early 2018, a team of scientists, including the author, traveled to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to probe deeper into the peatlands, which cover an area about the size of England and hold some […]

Journey into the wilds of the Congo rain forest with scientists trying to locate a shockingly large peatland so that they can help to preserve it. Mbandaka, Democratic Republic of the CongoIt had been three busy days since Greta Dargie had returned to Mbandaka, a city on the western border of the Democratic Republic of […]