13 million hectares saved in Congo
Category: Uncategorized | Date: Jan 21 2009 | By: paula
It finally seems like things might be looking up in Congo. 2000 Rwandan troopes are working the the DRC military to flush out the perpetrators of the Rwandan Genocide.
Following a review of 156 logging concessions granted in recent years, 91 (60%) will be canceled and 13 million hectares in the DR Congo will not be logged. The remaining 65 logging operations will go ahead and clear nearly 10 million hectares. While the cancellation of contracts is a step in the right direction, it falls short of expectations. All of the canceled contracts were issued in questionable circumstances, just part of the rampant corruption in that country. The Congo Basin is the second largest tropical forest in the world after the Amazon and is home to thousands of great apes amongst other species. But it is being destroyed at a rate of over 800,000 hectares a year (an area roughly the size of Massachusetts) due to logging, mining and agricultural land clearance.
We will be bringing news from the ground shortly.
Tags: , Congo, DR Congo, gorillas
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3 Responses to “13 million hectares saved in Congo”
Will, on 21 Jan 2009
This is good news from the Congo at last!
Brenton H, on 21 Jan 2009
Is there anything that overseas readers of this site can do to assist with saving more of the forests of the Congo? Who can we write letters to in the Congo that would make a difference? Brenton.
Annie, on 21 Jan 2009
I hope things will be looking up there ….the Congo needs and deserves to be saved!
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