Fishermen cast their net on the Congo River in the village of Isangi in the early morning. Isangi is the hub of small communities in the surrounding rainforest where logging is done by SAFBOIS. The DRC’s rainforests are critical for its inhabitants, who depend upon the rainforests to provide essential food, medicine, and other non-timber products, along with energy and building materials. Expansion of logging into remaining areas of intact forests in the Democratic Republic of the Congo will destroy globally critical carbon reserves and impact biodiversity. Beyond environmental impacts, logging in the region exacerbates poverty and leads to social conflicts.