![Aerial view of Congo forest at Lokolama/Penzele around Mbandaka, Équateur province, Democratic Republic of the Congo. Image courtesy of Daniel Beltrá / Greenpeace.](https://imgs.mongabay.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/20/2023/04/24225227/GP0STR4PL-768x512.jpeg)
Tap African knowledge and culture for Congo Basin forest conservation (commentary)
When growing up in the Congo Basin forest, I witnessed the consequences of forest destruction by logging and industrial agricultural plantations. In some areas, Indigenous communities used to live alongside…