Mélanie Gouby
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Mélanie Gouby
@melaniegouby.bsky.social
📝 Journalist(e)
🌿 Nat Geo Explorer
🎥 Filmmaker
www.melaniegouby.com
The story is best experienced in the print magazine but it is available online her too: www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/...
It's the world's most critical rainforest—and you probably can't name it
For decades, the Congo Basin was largely invisible to climate science. Now, a new generation of Central African researchers is revealing unexpected ways to protect the planet.
www.nationalgeographic.com
April 10, 2025 at 4:42 PM
The Congo Basin is a forest of superlatives: today it is one of our planet’s last net carbon sinks, home to the world's largest tropical peatlands. Our future depends on our determination to support the people who call it home in their efforts to preserve it.
April 10, 2025 at 4:41 PM
We met a new vanguard of Congolese scientists striving to understand this massive ecosystems at a time when it is needed most.
April 10, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Several years ago, with the support of the National Geographic Society, Nichole Sobecki I embarked on a journey to explore the Congo Basin, the second largest rainforest in the world and one of the most understudied parts of our planet.
April 10, 2025 at 4:40 PM
thank you, i'm glad it was clear! so much to say...
January 30, 2025 at 10:54 AM