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DRCONGO-ENVIRONMENT-FOREST
TO GO WITH AFP STORY BY HABIBOU BANGRE
Achim Steiner, Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme and Under Secretary General of the United Nations, speaks to present the latest report on the Democratic Republic of the Congo of the United Nations Environment Program during the first day of a High Level Forum on Environment of Sustainable Development in Kinshasa, on October 11, 2011. Forest conservation is a major challenge for the Democratic Republic of Congo, the second lung of the planet after the Amazon, covering over 1.55 million km2, mainly in the north, concentrating the majority of forest in the Congo Basin and is now threatened by deforestation. "Intensification of deforestation to meet a growing energy demand, and the extensive cultivation of slash and burn agriculture on a small scale" are "warning signs", warned Steiner adding that for cooking and lighting, the Congolese people cut-down each year approximately 400,000 hectares of forest. AFP PHOTO/HABIBOU BANGRE
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Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo |
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AFP / Mediafax Foto |
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HABIBOU BANGRE |
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29 Octombrie 2011 |
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