World Wildlife Fund.The World Wildlife Fund is warning that the world's second largest tropical forest, the Congo Congo, river, Africa Congo (kŏng`gō) or Zaïre (zī`ēr, zäēr`), great river of equatorial Africa, c. Basin, could lose two-thirds of its forests within 50 years if logging and mineral exploitation are not curbed curb n. 1. A concrete border or row of joined stones forming part of a gutter along the edge of a street. 2. An enclosing framework, such as that around a skylight. 3. . Reuters Reuters British cooperative news agency. Founded in 1851 by Paul Julius Reuter, it was initially concerned with commercial news but began to serve a growing newspaper clientele after the London Morning Advertiser subscribed in 1858. News Service reports the Congo Basin loses 3.7 million acres a year to agriculture, logging, road development, oil exploitation, and mining. The Congo, second only to the Amazon in the size of its tropical forest, is home to hundreds of mammal mammal, an animal of the highest class of vertebrates, the Mammalia. The female has mammary glands, which secrete milk for the nourishment of the young after birth. and bird species. More than 10,000 species of plants can be found on the forest floor, many unique and used in medicines. |
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