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Congo plans to ban log exports to improve its rainforest
Posted on November 1, 2021 |
- The Democratic Republic of the Congo is under pressure to improve forest management and reduce the high deforestation rate that doubled in the last decade
- The country will ban log exports and implement other means to reduce threats to its carbon-absorbing tropical rainforest
- The ban will enable natural rejuvenation in the Congo Basin rainforest that absorbs 4% of global carbon dioxide emissions out of the atmosphere yearly