The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is a forest-rich nation in a forest-rich region. Central Africa’s Congo Basin, an expanse that hosts the second largest tropical rainforest in the world, spans ten countries, including the DRC.Almost two-thirds of the Basin’s forests—and ten percent of the world’s tropical rainforests—lie within the DRC.2,5,6 More than half of the country is blessed with forest cover,7 which includes peat-swamp forests, mountain forests andmangroves.8 DRC’s extensive forests are home to extraordinary biodiversity, some of which is found nowhere else on Earth.

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