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