非洲刚果盆地广袤地区的树木砍伐速度正在加快，即便其他热带地区的森林砍伐速度正在放缓。
Trees in Africa’s vast Congo Basin are being cut down at a faster rate even as deforestation in other tropical regions slows.
2025年，中非盆地被清理的土地面积几乎与拉丁美洲和加勒比地区的树木损失持平，这是自《森林宣言评估》2015年发布首份报告以来首次出现这种情况。
The amount of land cleared in the central African basin in 2025 almost matched tree loss in Latin America and the Caribbean for the first time since the Forest Declaration Assessment produced its first report in 2015.
去年，非洲热带森林损失面积约为243万公顷（600万英亩），比前一年增加1.4%。而南美和中美地区（包括亚马逊）的森林损失面积为254万公顷。
About 2.43 million hectares (6 million acres) of tropical forest was lost in Africa last year, up 1.4% from the year before. That compared with 2.54 million hectares in the South and central American region, which includes the Amazon.
该组织负责评估制止森林砍伐的进展，并将非洲持续高速砍伐归因于小规模农业的无序扩张、政治意愿不足以及监管不力。
The group, which assesses progress in halting deforestation, laid the blame for the persistently high rate in Africa on the uncontrolled expansion of small-scale farming, a lack of political will and inadequate regulation.
刚果盆地面积超过印度，横跨尼日利亚的十字河到东非裂谷的12个非洲国家，是世界上第二大热带森林地区，也是最大的热带碳汇。其植被每年吸收6亿吨导致全球变暖的二氧化碳，相当于德国的年度排放量。
The Congo Basin, a region larger than India that stretches across 12 African nations from Cross River in Nigeria to the Rift Valley in East Africa, is the world’s second-biggest tropical forest area and its biggest tropical carbon sink. It’s vegetation absorbs 600 million tons of planet-warming carbon dioxide a year, equivalent to Germany’s emissions.
该地区也是全球生物多样性最丰富的地区之一，拥有1万种植物，以及为四种大猩猩提供栖息地的森林，还有森林象和羚牛——一种濒危的长颈鹿近亲。
It ranks among the world’s most-biodiverse areas, boasting 10,000 plant species and forests that provide homes for four species of great apes, as well as forest elephants and okapis — an endangered relative of the giraffe.
“森林一旦消失，其对土著和当地社区、刚果盆地各县的国家社区乃至整个星球所提供服务的真正价值才会被更好地认识到，”恩吉夫在一次电话会议上表示。“但那时就太迟了。”除了监管不善，他还指出，该地区数十年来的冲突——其中大部分发生在刚果民主共和国东部——导致了无序的伐木行为。
“Once gone, the true value of service rendered by the forest to indigenous and local communities, to our national communities in Congo Basin counties and to the whole planet will be better perceived,” Nguiffo said on a conference call. “This will be too late.”In addition to poor regulations, he pointed to decades of conflict in the region, much of it in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo, that had led to uncontrolled logging.
总体而言，全球森林砍伐去年比2024年下降了15%，仅有超过700万公顷的森林被采伐或焚毁。拉丁美洲和加勒比地区的森林损失面积下降了近三分之一，而亚洲热带地区的森林损失面积下降了11%，降至160万公顷。
Overall global deforestation fell 15% last year from 2024, with just over 7 million hectares of forest harvested or burnt. The area lost declined by almost a third in Latin America and the Caribbean, while in tropical regions of Asia it dropped by 11% to 1.6 million hectares.