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A logger's children stand in front of afrormosia logs chopped down by their father, who makes 400 Congolese Francs (less than US$1) a day in an area controlled by the Belgian-American logging giant Safbois. Afrormosia is a protected tree species whose international trade needs to be strictly regulated. Approximately 40 million people in the DRC depend on the rainforest for their basic needs, such as medicine, food or shelter.
07 July 2007
Congo, The Democratic Republic of the

A logger's children stand in front of afrormosia logs chopped down by their father, who makes 400 Congolese Francs (less than US$1) a day in an area controlled by the Belgian-American logging giant Safbois. Afrormosia is a protected tree species whose international trade needs to be strictly regulated. Approximately 40 million people in the DRC depend on the rainforest for their basic needs, such as medicine, food or shelter.

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