Central Africa: Logging In The Congo Basin: What Hope For Indigenous Peoples’ Resources, And ...

Central Africa: Logging In The Congo Basin: What Hope For Indigenous Peoples’ Resources, And Their Environments? Jerome Lewis, and John Nelson, 2011   The Congo Basin   The Congo Basin in Central Africa contains some of the largest and most biodiverse tracts of rainforest areas left in the world, second in size only to the Amazon Basin. They are also home to an estimated 29 million rural people, including up to 500,000 indigenous “Pygmy” hunter-gatherers and former hunter-gatherers.   In...

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