Greenpeace members and campaigners holding a banner together with the local community of Lokolama in the Congo Basin Peatland - 'Protext the 30 Billion Tons of Carbon under our feet!' A team from Greenpeace Africa are working with local partners to conduct scientific research in the village of Lokolama, 45 km from Mbandaka. The team aim to identify the presence of tropical peatlands in the region, and to measure its depth.