Summary Sheet

Congo Basin

COUNTRY

  • Burundi
  • Cameroon
  • Central African Republic
  • Congo
  • Democratic Republic of Congo
  • Gabon
  • Equatorial Guinea
  • Rwanda
  • Sao Tome and Principle
  • Chad

SOME NUMBERS

  • Total area: 530 million hectares
  • Forest area:268 million hectares
  • 6% of the world's forest area
  • 70% of Africa's forest cover
  • 91% of Africa's dense rainforests
  • 46 billion tonnes of carbon

SPECIFICATIONS

  • Second largest ecological lung in the world
  • Biodiversity pool