{"id":1069,"date":"2022-06-11T14:45:19","date_gmt":"2022-06-11T04:45:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/primaryforestsandclimate.org\/?page_id=1069"},"modified":"2022-11-16T17:18:11","modified_gmt":"2022-11-16T07:18:11","slug":"equateur-province","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/primaryforestsandclimate.org\/case-studies\/equateur-province\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00c9quateur, Democratic Republic of Congo"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u00c9quateur Province, Democratic Republic of Congo<\/h1>\n

The forests of the Congo Basin are essential to the future wellbeing of the country<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is in the heart of Africa's dense equatorial rainforest massif. The DRC hosts approximately half the continent's rainforest. The vast\u00a0majority of the DRC\u2019s forests are old-growth primary forest, and the country is home to the second largest national tropical forest in the world. Natural forests in the\u00a0DRC cover approximately 145 million hectares, or 67% of the national territory.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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Projet \u00c9quateur<\/a> aims to conserve forests, improve livelihoods and promote sustainable development in the DRC. Putting science in to practice, we engage with policy and management structures to test novel community centred approaches to combat deforestation and develop models for a \u201cGreen Economy\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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