Saving the rainforest in Africa

The forest is home to around 40 million people

The forests of the Congo Basin in Africa are regarded as the world's second most important rainforest ecosystem, after the Amazon.

And like the Amazon, the area is under threat.

Matt McGrath is the environment correspondent for the BBC World Service.

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The UN estimates that at present rates two thirds of the forest will have vanished by the year 2040.

To help alleviate the threat the British government is launching the Congo Basin Forest Fund, a $100 million project which will provide grants to conservation projects in the region.

Esther Lutonde Bikumbi works for one such project in the eastern DRC, Forest Network Conservation.

Samuel Nnah Ndobe is from the Centre for Environment and Development in Cameroon.

They both came into the World Today's studio and spoke to the BBC's Mark Whitaker.

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