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Monday, November 15, 2004:

World Bank subsidies threaten Congo's rainforest 

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Earlier this year Rainforest Foundation revealed that the World Bank and the UN Food and Agriculture Organization wanted to create "favorable climate for industrial logging" in the rainforest mostly located in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). This is the world's second largest intact rainforest and now the world's major environment, development and human rights groups have called on the World Bank to stop these plans. The organisations, which include WWF, Rainforest Foundation and Greenpeace, made a statement at the Forest Forum in Kinshasa on November 13, calling on the World Bank and government of the Democratic Republic of Congo "to maintain a moratorium on the issuing of any new logging concessions unless strict conditions are complied with".

Send an email to the World Bank demanding an immediate halt to their support for increased logging
the Congo rainforests (Forests.org)

Download the International NGO statement on DRC forests (Rainforest Foundation UK)

 
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