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30/1/2013
Deep in the vast
rainforest of the Democratic Republic of
Congo, chainsaws are buzzing. Heavy machinery rumbles and growls, as loggers slice their way through the forest.Three newly published investigations have confirmed that much of ...
23/3/2012
Danzer, a Swiss-German forestry company that has been heavily criticized by environmentalists for its
logging practices in the Democratic Republic of
Congo (DRC), has sold its operations in the Central African country, reports ...
25/10/2011
Approximately 40 million people in the Democratic Republic of
Congo depend on the
rainforest for their basic needs, such as medicine, food or shelter. In this image a local fisherman guides his boat through the waters of Lac Tumba (Lake Tumba). ...
13/3/2011
Congo legalizes 15
logging concessions, prompting concern that moratorium will be lifted next
The Democratic Republic of
Congo (DRC) has legalized 15
logging concessions that were previously listed as illegal under an effort to clean up ...
26/8/2010
In the last three weeks, Sarawak was abuzz with news of a particular climate change mitigation mechanism called REDD (Reducing Emission from Deforestation and Forest Degradation in Developing Countries).
First, a news article by Reuters ...
21/1/2009
The
Congo rainforest, the second largest tropical forest in the world, has been handed a temporary lifeline after two-thirds of timber concessions were
cancelled this week.
The government of the Democratic Republic of
Congo has ripped up ...
19/1/2009
The Democratic Republic of
Congo government has
cancelled nearly 60% of timber contracts in the world's second-largest tropical
rainforest.It follows a six-month review of 156
logging deals aimed at stamping out corruption in the sector ...
19/4/2007
The World Bank is failing to stop Western
logging firms from devastating the
tropical
rainforests of the Democratic Republic of
Congo (DRC), according to a
report by Greenpeace.
Carving up the
Congo claims that the World Bank ...
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