What the Congo Basin can learn from Filipino community forestry laws (commentary)

Mongabay
Feb 21, 2019, 3:08 pm240 pts
The Philippines was highly forested about a century ago. But today, forests cover less than a third of the country, due to logging, agriculture, fuelwood extraction and mining. To tackle forest depletion, the Philippines has adopted two sets of measures. First, a moratorium on logging has been in place since…

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