Having woken up to the sound of gorillas in the forest on my last morning of forest research in the Republic of Congo, I came close to the magic of seeing them in the wild. Few tourists visit Congo's national parks, and those who do are lucky time.com/6992325/kamba-…

Un grand merci à Cassie Dummett, Chercheure à l’UCL, pour ses brillantes présentations sur « la protection des tourbières du bassin du Congo et les aspirations pour l’avenir » lors de la conférence scientifique de Festival Kongo River à Brazzaville cette semaine.

Ce fut un plaisir de présenter et de discuter des tourbières du bassin du Congo avec les participants de la Conférence Scientifique du Festival du Fleuve Kongo. Festival Kongo River

🗞️Un briefing de Cassie Dummett, Joe Langley, O Emba, E Bokungu et le consortium #CongoPeat apporte de nouveaux éclairages sur les utilisations humaines des tourbières de la RDC ainsi que les variations des communautés d’oiseaux dans ce paysage. ➡️ congopeat.net/fr/briefings/

Delighted to see our briefing on birds and people in the Congo Basin peatlands now available to read online, both in English and French #CongoPeat

So pleased to have this paper published on our research in the peatlands in #DRC. We document the essential role the peatlands play in the lives and livelihoods of villagers and Indigenous People. With thanks to Simon Lewis and Shona Jenkins for helping to make it happen.

💷 Our pensions are currently driving #deforestation yet 76% of pension professionals are not engaging with their clients on nature related risk, according to a survey. But it doesn’t have to be this way. #Pension funds have demonstrated how they can be deforestation-free🧵 ⤵️

If Global Witness can track deforestation in indirect supply chains in Brazil, then surely JBS can too. The difference between the two? One is a billion dollar multinational, one is a small nongovernmental. It’s not lack of resources, it’s political will.

Delighted to see the beauty of Congo's forests and wildlife in Vogue Magazine. I hope more people visit Kamba's beautiful lodges. But fighting stereotypes with stereotypes doesn't work. People do not know more about the moon than they know about Congo! vogue.com/article/congo-…

The #peatlands in #Congo Basin are a globally important store of carbon and a source of livelihoods for local & Indigenous people. Our multi-stakeholder meeting in #Brazzaville built consensus that these people should be at the heart of its preservation CongoPeat Jonas Ngouhouo P.

🚨BREAKING: Retail giants such as Costco and @Amazon are selling collagen supplements linked to the destruction of some of Paraguay’s 🇵🇾 last remaining climate-critical forests, our latest investigation has found: gwitness.org/4gW4uTT

An investigation that shows the urgency of banning the import of products grown on deforested land #EUDR . If Global Witness can trace deforestation from indigenous land through to cattle, through to collagen and drinks, then companies can too, but only a law will make them.

A multi-stakeholder workshop to share our #peatlands research in #Congo led to consensus that Indigenous people and local communities but be at the heart of protection initiatives. UCL Geography CongoPeat

The Minister for the Environment said "The people who have lived here in harmony with nature for generations have ancestral knowledge and skills that are immeasurably valuable for the sustainable management of these #peatland ecosystems."

More funding is needed for Congolese research into forest ecology. "Just a few dozen of the perhaps 300 scientists publishing on conservation topics related to the Congo Basin are from the DRC itself." science.org/content/articl…

So, what does the re-election of Donald Trump mean for climate change? We can make some educated guesses based on his first term, his campaign, and the expressed wishes of his allies. A few of my thoughts as a thread. 🧵

With "a combination of fossil-fuel subsidy reform, a price on carbon post-2030 and use of collected revenue to cut taxes elsewhere, the country could achieve nationally determined contribution (NDC) targets, boost income growth and increase economic diversification"

As a researcher of the #Congo's forests, I followed Congo's president's speech at #COP29Baku. Sassou spoke of the essential role of forests, Congo's initiative to include gross natural capital in calculating GDP, and the need for innovative financing voaafrica.com/a/congo-presid…

🌳Farmers in the Brazilian #Amazon may lose up to $1 billion a year because of #deforestation, according to a study by the Federal University of Minas Gerais & Rainforest Foundation Norway (RFN). The destruction is dramatically impacting crop yields. Read more The Economist: economist.com/science-and-te…