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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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How the DRC government has secretly breached it’s own logging moratorium

In a snub to international donors, the DRC government has violated a moratorium on the allocation of new industrial logging concessions in place since 2002. Now the Minister of Environmental, Conservation of Nature and Sustainable Development (MECNDD) has announced his plans to lift the suspension of the moratorium.

Greenpeace Africa
12 July 2016
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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
1 March 2016
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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
13 December 2010

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