DRC: Poor Governance Fuels ‘Horrible Dynamic’ of Deforestation in DRC

Dec 21, 2020 | Victoria Schneider, Mongabay
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Considered by the World Bank one of the poorest countries in the world based on GDP per capita, as well as being home to 60% of the Congo Basin, the DRC faces many challenges, one of them being the ever-increasing speed of deforestation. A visualization of tree cover loss by Global Forest Watch’s Forest Atlas shows that, in the DRC, forest is disappearing far away from main roads and urban conglomerations in the middle of the country.