FROM EVOLUTION TO ECOLOGY

Ecological research remains a vast field, given the very nature of this discipline, which makes it a "frontier discipline", or rather, a science at the crossroads of other sciences. As a biological science, ecology dates back to 1866, thanks to the ingenuity of German naturalist Ernst HAECKEL (1834 -1919). Its current fame dates back to the 1972 Stockholm conference on the crisis of the human environment, whose degradation is understood both as the consequence of a mistaken conception of wild nature and as a permanent threat to the future of mankind.Based on the experience of the tropical forest ecosystems of the Amazon, Indonesia and the Congo Basin, including the role of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, one of the world's environmental heavyweights, with primary forests worldwide and countless species at stake in today's climate problems, everyone is invited to take an interest in this "new" field of research to respond effectively to the concert of nations.