AR-News: Demand World Bank Stop Subsidizing Industrial Logging in the Congo

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From: gbarry at forests.org

FORESTS ALERT
Demand World Bank Stop Subsidizing Industrial Logging in the Congo
Issued March 13, 2004 by Forests.org, Inc.

TAKE ACTION: http://forests.org/action/africa/

The World Bank and UN Food and Agriculture Organization are stealthily
seeking to increase logging by sixty times in the world's second largest
intact rainforest found mostly in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
According to World Bank documents they intend to "create a favorable
climate for industrial logging" by subsidizing the development of
comprehensive new forestry laws in the Congo, as well as the 'zoning' of
the country's entire forest area. Joseph Bobia, spokesperson for the
Congolese development organization CENADEP, fears that as a result of
industrial logging "much of the country [will be] turned into a vast
logging concession." More than 100 environment, development, and human
rights groups in the Congo have called on the World Bank to stop these
plans. 
Please demand the World Bank immediately halt plans for the
expansion of industrial logging in the Democratic Republic of Congo and
remaining ancient primary forests around the World at:
http://forests.org/action/africa/ .

Discuss this alert:
http://www.environmentalsustainability.info/talk/viewtopic.php?p=402#402

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