DRC set to reclassify national parks for oil, open rainforest to logging

Mongabay
Jul 19, 2018, 7:06 pm287 pts
Concern is mounting for the Democratic Republic of Congo’s (DRC) vast forests and rich wildlife as logging concessions and licenses to explore for oil in protected areas are prepared ahead of presidential elections later this year. A moratorium on industrial logging, in place since 2002, has been broken with…

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