African Rainforests will suffer from a totally new climate of unprecedented heat from 2025 onwards with staggering consequences for all life on Earth.pic.twitter.com/q9ni4aFeTO
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“Releasing this carbon into the atmosphere through continuing deforestation not only commits us to the worst impacts of climate change, but also results in the loss of a globally important carbon sink."https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/nov/12/congo-basin-swamps-peatlands-carbon-climate-change …
'Satellite data indicate the Congo Basin lost an area of forest larger than Bangladesh between 2000 and 2014.'https://news.mongabay.com/2018/11/congo-basin-rainforest-may-be-gone-by-2100-study-finds/ …
Elephants, gorillas, and large herbivores keep the density of small trees very low through predation, reducing competition for large trees. But in areas where these animals have been depleted by hunting, forests tend to be shorter + denser with small trees.https://rainforests.mongabay.com/congo/
The extra carbon in African forests comes from trees being larger; the average diameter of a tree in an African rainforest is 1.5 times larger than that of a tree in the Amazon. Trees in African rainforests are also taller than their Amazonian counterparts.https://theconversation.com/africas-rainforests-are-different-why-it-matters-that-theyre-protected-77203 …
"If the lengthening dry season continues, the Congo's evergreen forest could be substituted by drought tolerant species such as savannas or woody grasslands favoring drier conditions... On a larger scale, these changes could also accelerate global warming"https://phys.org/news/2019-07-longer-summer-season-congo-rainforest.html …
The world’s largest tropical peatlands could be destroyed if plans go ahead to drill for oil under the Congo basin, according to an investigation that suggests draining the area would release the same amount of carbon dioxide as Japan emits annually.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/feb/28/ridiculous-plan-to-drain-congo-peat-bog-could-release-vast-amount-of-carbon-aoe …
"the global population of forest elephants has collapsed by two-thirds over the past decade," said Laurance. "Elephants, gorillas and chimps hardly have anywhere to hide from poachers now."https://phys.org/news/2019-06-roads-deforestation-congo-basin.html …
'Tropical rainforests are far and away the most important ecosystems for mitigating climate change. Of the world’s three largest tropical rainforests, only the Congo has enough standing forest left to remain a strong net carbon sink.'https://cleantechnica.com/2021/01/21/forests-absorb-twice-as-much-carbon-as-they-emit-each-year/?__twitter_impression=true …
People who think covid-19 is a crisis engulfing the world are in for a bit of a shock 20 years from now
10 years -likely less
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