The land
Go Conscious Earth is focused on conserving rainforest and peatland near Lake Tumba, DRC. The Congo rainforest is known as “Earth’s second lung”
Rainforest
“The Second Lung of the Earth,” the Congo Basin consists of rich, biodiverse rainforests and swamps. The size of half the continental United States, it spans the six central African nations of Cameroon, Central African Republic, Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The DRC boasts more than 60% of the total Basin and Central Africa's lowland forest cover. It is estimated that 75 million people and 150 distinct ethnic groups depend on this rainforest through game and wood, subsistence agriculture and fishing, regulation of local climate and water flows, soil protection and enrichment, and more. learn more…
Peatland
The Cuvette Central peatland is a vast swamp the size of England that surrounds Lake Tumba. It is the largest wetland in the tropics. The waters slow the decay of the trees and plants falling into them, forming peat and storing enormous quantities of carbon - an estimated 30 billion metric tons. Their role in maintaining a global climate balance can be preserved with policies to control peat extraction. learn more…
Lake Tumba
As the world’s largest swamp forest, second largest wetland area, and home to the largest Ramsar Freshwater Wetland of International Importance, the Lake Tumba landscape is known for its incredible biodiversity. Critical to climate stabilization both locally and globally, some two million people depend on this area's rich forests, marshes, savannahs and meadows, seasonally-flooded woodlands and lakes, floating prairies, ponds and rivers - as well as the renowned carbon dense peatlands. learn more…
Lake Tumba and Equateur Province Communities We Support
Go Conscious Earth has helped secure customary land rights for four communities in Equateur Province. Our current partners in the work of rainforest conservation, poverty alleviation and sustainable livelihood initiatives within Local Community Forest Concessions are the communities of Ngelo Monzoi, Ikoko Bonginda, Nkake (north of Lake Tumba), and Lokongo in the far more remote region south of the lake. These communities have all specifically requested the assistance of Go Conscious Earth.
