{"id":548333,"date":"2025-06-10T14:02:29","date_gmt":"2025-06-10T17:02:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/?p=548333"},"modified":"2025-06-10T15:48:41","modified_gmt":"2025-06-10T18:48:41","slug":"research-to-protect-the-congolian-rainforest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/research-to-protect-the-congolian-rainforest\/","title":{"rendered":"Research to protect the Congolian rainforest"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_548334\" style=\"max-width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright vertical\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-548334 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/RPF-notas-floresta-congo-2024-12-800.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"571\" srcset=\"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/RPF-notas-floresta-congo-2024-12-800.jpg 800w, https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/RPF-notas-floresta-congo-2024-12-800-250x178.jpg 250w, https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/RPF-notas-floresta-congo-2024-12-800-700x500.jpg 700w, https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/RPF-notas-floresta-congo-2024-12-800-120x86.jpg 120w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span class=\"media-credits-inline\">Guerchom Ndebo\u2009\/\u2009AFP via Getty Images<\/span>A 55-meter-high tower measures carbon emitted or absorbed in the Yangambi Biosphere Reserve<span class=\"media-credits\">Guerchom Ndebo\u2009\/\u2009AFP via Getty Images<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<p>There is a shortage of environmental researchers in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Experts say this represents a threat to the long-term survival of the rainforest in the Congo River Basin, the second largest in the world, which is home to hundreds of species of mammals and more than 10,000 tropical plants, a third of which are exclusive to the region. Its capacity to retain carbon may be even higher than that of the Amazon rainforest. Very few Congolese researchers are publishing articles in international scientific journals\u2014one of them is Bila-Isia Inogwabini, affiliated with Uppsala University in Sweden, who founded the Department of the Environment and Natural Resource Management at the Catholic University of Congo. In 2023, the Brazilian National Institute for Amazonian Research (INPA) began a project\u2014still in its early stages\u2014inspired by the Large-Scale Biosphere-Atmosphere Experiment (LBA). Greater than the challenge of obtaining funding is inspiring and retaining researchers, offering them the resources to support themselves during their training and the prospect of being hired to work in the country (<em>Science<\/em>, October 3).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lack of researchers threatens rainforest conservation in Democratic Republic of Congo","protected":false},"author":475,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1651],"tags":[200],"coauthors":[785],"class_list":["post-548333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-notes","tag-environment"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/475"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=548333"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":548343,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548333\/revisions\/548343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548333"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=548333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}