A man holds some Chinese currency along the road from Mbandaka, which has brought a string of various foreigners, stretching back to Belgian colonial days, who seek natural resources from the area, in Penzele, Democratic Republic of Congo, Oct. 22, 2021. The area's swamps are part of the biggest network of tropical peatlands in the world -- 55,000 square miles of Central Africa that store more than 30 Times)