Africa

Democratic Republic of the Congo

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The country is covered by the UNESCO National Office in Kinshasa.

UNESCO launched a postgraduate training in tropical forest management in 1999 at the University of Kinshasa. This regional School on Integrated Management of Tropical Forests and Territories (ERAIFT) trains some 30 specialists from francophone and lusophones countries in Africa each year to apply the ecosystem approach to forest management in Africa. The school is run by the Man and the Biosphere Programme (MAB) and supported by the United Nations Development Fund, the Republic of Congo, Cameroon, Côte D'Ivoire, Guinea, Mauritania, Madagascar, Belgium and the European Union, among others.

Below you can access the projects that are currently being implemented in the country within the framework of UNESCO’s Natural Sciences Sector.

People, Biodiversity and Ecology

- Great Apes Survival Project (GRASP)

- Satellite Imagery – Decision Support Tool for Gorilla Conservation More 

- Biosphere Reserves (WNBRs)

- Regional School on Integrated Management of Tropical Forests and Territories (ERAIFT)

Earth Sciences

- Pan-African Network for a Geoscience Information System (PANGIS)

- Geodynamics of the East African Rift System / Geophysical Characteristics and Evolution of the South-western Branch of the East African Rift System (IGCP, Project 482/489)

- The Neoproterozoic Pan-African belt of Central Africa: Sedimentation, deformation history, magmatism, metamorphism and geotectonic evolution (IGCP, Project 470)

Basic Sciences

- Global Microscience Project (GPME)  

Remote Sensing

- Satellite Imagery for Conservation of World Heritage Sites in the Democratic Republic of Congo More

- Satellite Imagery – Decision Support Tool for Gorilla Conservation More