Greenpeace activists protest outside the opening of the France Afrique Summit in Cannes, a conference of heads of state from France and Africa. Following today's protests, President Chirac announced his support to maintain the moratorium on...

People hold up green leaflets reading 'Save Congo's Forests' in French, during a demonstration in Parc du Cinquantenaire, Brussels, a few days before Congo's 50th independence anniversary in 2010.

A woman from a forest dependant community gathers firewood. Approximately 40 million people in the DRC depend on the rainforest for their basic needs, such as medicine, food or shelter. Despite being rich in natural resources, the Democratic...