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The Democratic Republic of the Congo is just one of the countries where Greenpeace Africa operates. We campaign to protect the Congo Basin forest by building resistance to the expansion of industrial logging and other unsustainable industrial exploitation of the precious forest and peatland ecosystems. To this end, we investigate and expose unfair and destructive forest use and work with civil society and local communities to amplify their voices and enable continued sustainable community use of forest resources. Besides, we promote solutions for sustainable development like community forestry that enable local communities to effectively exercise their rights on their own forest management.

The Greenpeace Africa DRC office opened in Kinshasa in 2008.

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  • Sodefor Concession in Congo. © Kate Davison

    How the DRC government has secretly breached its own logging moratorium

    Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo, 12th July 2016 – A Greenpeace Africa investigation has revealed that the DRC government violated its own 2002 moratorium on new logging titles, granting three concessions of a total of 650.000 hectares in 2015 to a company called Société la Millénaire Forestière SARL (SOMIFOR) in Equateur and Tshuapa Provinces, and…

    Greenpeace Africa
    3 min read

  • Congo threatens to open world’s second largest rainforest to new industrial loggers

    London/Kinshasa (Wednesday 2nd March, 2016: A tropical rainforest more than twice the size of France is at risk of being cut down, following news from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) that the government is considering re-opening its forest to new logging companies.

    Greenpeace Africa
    3 min read
  • Primary Forest in Papua. © Ulet Ifansasti

    Turning REDD into Green

    Can a National REDD Plan in the Democratic Republic of Congo set a new course for the protection of forests, people and global climate?

    Greenpeace Africa