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Keywords
Fishers
Fishing (activity)
Forests (campaign title)
Kayaks
KWCI (GPI)
Local population
Morning
Outdoors
Rivers
Silhouettes
Sunrises
Sustainable fishing
Trees
Tropical rainforests
Two people
Fishermen in Early Morning in Congo
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.
Unique identifier:
GP0LFU
Type:
Image
Shoot date:
23/03/2007
Locations:
Africa
,
Central Africa
,
Democratic Republic of the Congo
,
Isangi
,
Orientale
Credit line:
© Greenpeace / Jiro Ose
Ranking:
★★★★★★ (B)
Containers
Shoot:
Democratic Republic Congo Forests Documentation 2007
The second largest rainforest in the world sits in the Congo basin of Africa. About half of this forest, still largely intact, lies in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and supports more species of birds and mammals than any other African region. The rainforests are also critical for its human inhabitants, who depend upon the rainforests to provide essential food, medicine, and other non-timber products, along with energy and building materials. The World Bank and other donors view logging as a way to alleviate poverty and promote economic development. In reality, 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.
Related Collections:
Democratic Republic Congo Forests Documentation 2007
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