News Headline

DRC deforestation escalates despite resource shortages, protests, rape, homicide

Source
Mongabay.com

Publication Date
2014-07-11

Road construction, the promise of employment, and the conversion of forest to farmland – the effects of logging tropical forests are often not confined to the boundaries of the concessions, where, in the best case, a timber company has gained legal access to harvest trees. Along the Congo River in the northern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), recent data showing probable forest loss demonstrate the often-unforeseen consequences of timber harvesting.

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http://news.mongabay.com/2014/0710-cannon-gfrn-drc-congo.html