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