4,000km2 of forest illegally awarded by DRC ex-Minister

Hello ,

We’ve just revealed that DRC’s ex-Environment Minister, Robert Bopolo Mbongeza, granted two new illegal logging licenses in September 2016. One to an adviser to President Joseph Kabila and a second one to a member of parliament - both totalling a huge 4,000 km2. MAP_Moratorium on the allocation of new logging concessions in the DRC

MAP_Moratorium on the allocation of new logging concessions in the DRC

That same year, in October, the DRC government received the first $40 million disbursement of a $200 million pledge from Norway’s Climate and Environment Minister from the Central African Forest Initiative. This money is meant to protect the Congo forest, but CAFI kept silent while these illegal transactions took place.

These events clearly show that the Congolese government’s intends to secure CAFI's financial support while completely disregarding the moratorium on industrial logging activities. Join the call to zero deforestation:

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