Local indigenous people get more land in a DRC community forest

Mongabay
Jun 4, 2026, 5:12 pm116 ptsTrending
Tshopo province in the Democratic Republic of the Congo granted 31 community forest land titles to farmers in May, bringing a total of more than a million hectares of forest in Tshopo under the legal stewardship of local Indigenous peoples. Bantu and Indigenous Mbuti communities have lived in the province for…

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