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Agric. & Environment
Congo Basin forests shrink due to illegal logging
Criminal rings exploit "gaps in the regulatory framework" with the complicity of corrupt officials to plunder the dense forests, which cover about 200 million hectares (500 million acres) — the size of a country like Saudi Arabia.
An artisanal logger fells a tree along the RN4 road in the heart of the Congo Basin forest near Kisangani in the northeast of the Democratic Republic of Congo on September 25, 2019. (AFP)
By: NewVision Reporter, Journalist @NewVision
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LIBREVILLE - The Congo Basin's tropical forests, known as the "planet's second lung" behind the Amazon, are shrinking by one to five per cent a year