DRC: Loggers Have ‘Grabbed’ around 1m Hectares of Indigenous Land in DRC

Mar 12, 2024 | Josh Gabbatiss, Carbon Brief
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Logging companies have “acquired” roughly 1m hectares of Indigenous peoples’ territory in the Democratic Republic of the Congo since 2000, according to a new study. This is part of a wider trend in which companies and governments take advantage of weak or unclear land rights to lease out swathes of communal land in the global south.