Holding agriculture and logging at bay in the Congo peatlands

Mongabay
Dec 9, 2021, 1:22 am321 pts
This is the third article in our four-part series “The Congo Basin peatlands.” Read Part One and Part Two. The logging concession moratorium signed in 2002 was supposed to shore up protections for forests in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Faced with widespread corruption in the timber sector, the…

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