The Congo Basin has the largest forest cover on the African continent. Of the 400 million hectares that the Basin comprises, about 200 million of them are covered by forest, with 90 percent being tropical dense forests. The Congo Basin's logging sector has a dualistic configuration. It boasts a highly visible formal sector that is export oriented and dominated by large industrial groups with foreign capital and an informal sector that has long been...
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2013/05/01
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Other Environmental Study
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2013/05/24
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Deforestation trends in the Congo Basin : logging
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Strategic Environmental and Social Assessment
Citation
Braune,Loic Jean Charles; Doetinchem,Nina; Dulal,Hari Bansha; Megevand,Carole.
Deforestation trends in the Congo Basin : logging (English). Deforestation trends in the Congo Basin|no. 2. Logging Washington DC ; World Bank. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/160571468192845147