Mongabay: In 2002 the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) announced a moratorium on commercial logging in a bid to save rapidly falling forests, however a new report by Global Witness alleges that industrial loggers are finding away around the logging freeze. Through unscrupulous officials, foreign companies are abusing artisanal permits-meant for local community logging-to clear-cut wide swathes of tropical forest in the country. These logging companies are often targeting an endangered tree-wenge (Millettia...
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