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The Cuvette Centrale is a broad, low-lying basin of forests, rivers, swamps, and peatlands in the central Congo Basin, principally within the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Republic of the Congo. Research has identified an exceptionally large tropical peatland complex beneath its swamp for...
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Globally important tropical peat carbon store and remote biodiversity system, though public recognition remains limited.
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Across parts of six Central African nations, the Congo Basin supports the world's second-largest tropical rainforest region after the Amazon. Its forests provide habitat for forest elephants and gorillas, alongside a wide variety of plants and other wildlife. Many threatened species depend on these...
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