Logging road construction has surged in the Congo Basin since 2003

Mongabay
Jun 24, 2019, 12:41 pm308 pts
The length of roads in Congo Basin logging concessions has doubled since 2003, according to new research, raising concerns about the impacts of these incursions into the world’s second-largest bank of tropical forest. The authors of the study, published June 24 in the journal Nature Sustainability, note that…

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