🚨 LET'S PUSH BACK!⁣ ✊🏾 ✊🏼 ✊🏿 ✊🏻 ✊ The Democratic Republic of Congo government is auctioning off 30 oil and gas blocks in the Cuvette-Centrale Peatlands in the Congo Basin forest — the world’s largest tropical peatland. The Congo basin covers 530 million hectares (1.3 billion acres) in central Africa and represents 70% of the continent’s forested land. It hosts over a thousand bird species and more primates than any other place worldwide, including the great apes: gorillas, chimpanzees and Bonobos. Local communities have lived in the Congo Basin for more than 50,000 years. Today, 75 million people from over 150 distinct ethnic groups depend on the health of the forest that covers much of the Congo Basin peatland complex. Exploring for oil won’t make people of the DRC better off: pollution will reach the many and revenues will reach a handful of beneficiaries in Kinshasa and overseas. ⁣ Let's stop any further damage being done to pristine African forests! . .⁣ Add your voice ...