Need Help, Urgent!!!! The story of ‘Kalulu and theTiger' is based on mainland Africa. About 1/4th of Africa is under forest cover. The Congo Basin is the second largest tropical rainforest in the world. According to a recent study, trees in the regions around Yangambi in the Congo Basin are losing their ability to soak carbon dioxide. The same has been observed in the Amazon. Identify the reasons for this ecological imbalance and present them in the form of a fact file with pictures (soft copy).
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The Congo Basin, the world's second largest tropical forest after the Amazon, loses some 3.7 million acres a year to agriculture, logging, road development, oil exploitation and mining, WWF's Central African regional office (CARPO) said in a report published late on Thursday.
"Tropical forest is vanishing at a rate of 5 percent a decade, wrecking habitats and releasing 3 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide a year, which is a fifth of global greenhouse emissions," CARPO director Laurent Som? said in the report.
About 400 mammal species live in the Congo Basin, including the world's largest populations of lowland gorillas, chimpanzees, bonobos and forest elephants, all under threat as their habitat is destroyed.
More than 655 bird species fly under its dense canopy and over 10,000 plant species take root in the forest floor, many of them unique to the region and containing medicinal properties