 Yanganbi, in the Democratic Republic of Congo, is home to the first Edycovarian tower in the Congo basin since October 2020. Congo Flux A scientific structure that measures exchanges of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide between the atmosphere and the forest. Reaching a total height of 55 meters, the equivalent of a 17-storey building, this tower reaches above the canopy an essential precondition for proper data collection. This structure works through a method called Edycovariance. We have a lot of equipment on the tower but the two essential components is an animometer and this measures wind direction in three directions and then we have a lycor instrument that measures the CO2 concentration and those two parameters, so the wind speed in different directions and the CO2 concentrations above the canopy take over eye. And with this information we can calculate how much of the CO2 is entering the forest so a sequestration and how much CO2 through respiration is leaving the forest and so with those two parameters we can then calculate the net balance of how much carbon is really taken up by these forests. Although there are over 600 towers of this type around the world, this is the first one in the second largest rainforest on the planet. The data produced by Congo Flux is essential to understand the contribution of the Congo Basin Forest to climate change mitigation and thereby will inform decision making on forest conservation. It will be a generator of data, it will generate a lot of data that the scientific community, not only local but also international, will be able to benefit from it. The Congo Flux will help us to have exactly the valley that our forest is sequestering with carbon. The Congo Flux tower will be part of a tower network called AICOS, this implies that all the data that will emerge from the tower will periodically have a quality control, after what? All the data will be put into accessibility on a website, so anyone who has access to the internet will be able to freely download the data that emerges from the tower. The tower is the result of a collaboration between Ghent University, Inera, C4, the company RSD and Arrived. This is operated mainly by a team composed out of a 26-year-old Congolese PhD student affiliated to Ghent University and Arrived, as well as a technician from Ghent University who work closely together to keep the infrastructure running smoothly. I am lucky, I was the only one to be chosen by my 43 candidates. With this project, I had the doctorate something that was really in my heart. I received two training sessions, the first part was at Ghent, at Ghent University. And the second training session, I had it in French Guiana. Two times a week, I have to go to the tower in the rain, do a data call of the teacher, I have to look at what is happening at the tower, do the monitoring, but also I have to train technicians here at the local level to replace them. The Congol Flux Tower reinforces the role of Yangambi as a scientific hub for studying tropical forests, an initiative that creates direct and indirect opportunities for the local population, part of which is employed in research activities and construction. For the tour, we had a average of 25 people. We had a team of more or less 20 of them, more than 5 technicians who are certified and they worked on it. This tower sets an example of how science and conservation of tropical forests can serve as a driver for development in the DRC. This tower can help decision makers worldwide, but specifically in the DRC, to better account for how much carbon is really stored in their forests on an annual basis.