DRC: Forestry administration at the service of the people?
24.07.2006
Since 1990, a lot of noise has been made about the forests of the Congo Basin, both good and bad. Now a new environmental wave is descending on the Democratic Republic of Congo, of a scope very similar to that of the “Zaire boom” in the seventies. However, the question is: are the Central African forestry administrations - generally subject to insidious sociological factors - aligned with the aspirations and needs regarding welfare of the region’s inhabitants?