Democratic Republic of Congo : The sell-off of the forest continues
2021-08-20 00:00
While threatening to lift the 2002 moratorium on new forest concessions - an attempt to raise the stakes in the run-up to the COP26 in November - Deputy Prime Minister and Environment Minister Eve Bazaiba continues to ignore the illegal allocation of two million hectares of so-called "conservation" concessions by her predecessor, Claude Nyamugabo.
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