In a major development, leading international conservation, environmental, indigenous and development organizations have united to oppose expansion of industrial logging in the Congo rainforest - the second largest rainforests remaining. This is perhaps the rainforest struggle of the decade. If industrial logging is allowed to expand haphazardly through World Bank subsidies, this massive ecosystem engine - responsible for climate, hydrology, soils, biodiversity and meeting local development needs - will cease to exist as a large, operable whole. This will have tragic consequences for local peoples and the World at large. The alert has been updated to reflect hard fought and rare agreement amongst all conservation interests that current plans to expand logging in the Congo are unacceptable. The unprecedented joint declaration can be found at: www.rainforestfoundationuk.org.
Source: Forests.org
