{"id":6868,"date":"2019-11-28T09:15:08","date_gmt":"2019-11-28T06:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=6868"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:43","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:43","slug":"saving-river-congo-from-drying-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/11\/28\/saving-river-congo-from-drying-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Saving River Congo From Drying Up"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>By &nbsp;Apolinari\nTairo<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With ongoing environmental degradation in the Congo forest,\nresearchers are working on regional interventions to save the Congo River and\nits sources from consequences that could cause it to dry up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A team of researchers from Tanzania and the Democratic\nRepublic of Congo studying environmental hazards around the Congo River for\nfive years, found cases of encroachment of the ecosystem that could lead to its\ndeath.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Congo River basin spans six countries \u2014 Cameroon, the\nCentral African Republic (CAR), DRC, the Republic of Congo, Gabon and\nEquatorial Guinea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Degradation <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Team leader Prof Preksedis Ndomba from the University of Dar\nes Salaam said that human activities including random tree felling for charcoal\nin the Congo Forest and other parts of the DRC, small and large scale farming\nwithin the River Congo ecosystem, industrial activities and the construction of\nmega hydropower generation station would cause the river to dry up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Prof Ndomba said that the degradation of the river would\naffect DRC, Angola, Zambia, Burundi, Cameroon, Republic of Congo (Congo\nBrazzaville), South Sudan, Rwanda, CAR and Tanzania.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theeastafrican.co.ke\/scienceandhealth\/Saving-River-Congo-from-drying-up\/3073694-5364210-j2bnyg\/index.html\">Read\nmore\u2026<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By &nbsp;Apolinari Tairo With ongoing environmental degradation in the Congo forest, researchers are working on regional interventions to save the Congo River and its sources from consequences that could cause&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6869,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6868\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}