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Congo basin rainforest countries mongabay.com January 15, 2010 REDD, responsible logging could help preserve Congo forests, reduce poverty, says report The review, entitled State of the Forest 2008, was released Thursday at an event hosted by the State Department and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). More than 100 scientists, policy and technical experts contributed to the report, which includes an overview of the region's forests and detailed profiles for each of the six Congo Basin Forest Partnership member countries: Gabon, Republic of the Congo, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Cameroon and the Central African Republic.
"Firewood harvesting far exceeds timber extraction in terms of volume of wood harvested," it states. "However, it rarely impacts rainforest except close to large urban centers." The report goes on to say that sustainable forest management and payments for ecosystem services schemes — like the proposed reducing greenhouse gas emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD) mechanism — could potentially boost development without undermining sustainability, although both require governance structures that are currently lacking in most Congo Basin countries.   The Forests of the Congo Basin - State of the Forest 2008, Editors : de Wasseige C., Devers D., de Marcken P., Eba'a Atyi R., Nasi R. and Mayaux Ph., 2009, Luxembourg: Publications Office of the European Union, ISBN 978-92-79-13210-0, doi: 10.2788/32259 State of the Forest 2008 Table of Contents  Introduction and contributors (0.27Mb)
PART 1 - State of The Forests in Central Africa : Regional and National Syntheses
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