CONGO FOREST HEALTH TARGET OF WORLD BANK PROGRAMME
May 1st, 2009
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THREATS from loggers to the rain forests of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) have long concerned environmentalists. The construction of roads by mining and logging companies, although promoters of economic growth, has also been seen as creating routes for the unsustainable stripping of forests of their trees, robbing Congolese of traditional sources of food, medicine, domestic energy, building materials and income. As a result, the bank is happy with a DRC legal review of forest logging contracts in the country, which has actually led ...
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