World’s largest tropical peatlands discovered in swamp forests of Congo Basin

Mongabay
Feb 9, 2017, 6:58 pm137 pts
A vast area of peatlands in the swamp forests of the Congo Basin, known as the Cuvette Centrale peatlands, has just been mapped for the first time and shown to be the largest in all of the tropics. The peatlands, which weren’t even known to exist as recently as five years ago, were revealed to cover 145,500…

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