The Congo Basin Forest Fund has been set up to protect the rainforest by paying African governments and its indigenous people to manage its vast resources sustainably.The Congo rainforest is the second largest in the world and contains more than a quarter of the planet's remaining tropical rainforest. Every week an area the size of 25,000 football pitches is cut down in the Congo Basin.
The UN warns that two-thirds of this rainforest will be gone by 2040.
It is home to more than 50m people, supports an estimated 10,000 plant species, 1,000 types of birds and 400 different kinds of mammals.
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