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Article

5 Sep 2002

Author:
UN Wire

FORESTS: World Bank Launches Partnership To Protect Africa's Congo Basin

...The bank warned that the world's second largest primary rainforest...is put under pressure by logging, agriculture, population growth and the oil and mining industries...The donated funds will support activities in Cameroon, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon and the Republic of the Congo in 11 target areas.