DRC: World Bank admits to failures in protecting Congo's rainforests

Information released today (March 8) by the World Bank reveals that it has failed to ensure proper protection of the environment and local peoples in its programmes to 'develop' the vast rainforests of the Democratic Republic of Congo, which are the second largest on Earth after the Amazon, reports the Rainforest Foundation. The revelations come following a preliminary investigation by the World Bank Inspection Panel, the official independent watchdog agency.