DR Congo

Promoting and Formalising Artisanal Exploitation in Central Africa (PROFEAAC)

In Central Africa, artisanal timber exploitation is at least as important in terms of volume, employment and turnover as the exploitation of forests by industrial firms for export. These sectors are now well organised, but they remain almost entirely informal, which hinders their development and reduces their contribution to the national economies.

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DR Congo

Protecting and managing water and forests to strengthen socio-ecological resilience in the DRC (Tshopo/Kwilu)

Tropical forests play a crucial role in balancing the climate and maintaining life-supporting ecosystems. They help regulate the water cycle and water quality, form the soil, harbour rich floral and faunal biodiversity and provide many other socio-cultural services. However, forests, water and biodiversity are now seriously threatened by human activities such as agriculture, timber exploitation, mining, hunting, fishing, carbonisation of wood energy, urbanisation and population growth.

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DR Congo

Supporting forest communities in the DRC in the protection and sustainable management of water and forest resources to strengthen socio-ecological resilience

The DRC is one of a group of 17 "mega-diverse" countries and its forests and natural and water resources are of global importance. Forests and their water resources provide many important environmental services to humanity, including regulation of climate, oxygen and temperature, rainfall, biodiversity, etc.

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DR Congo

Combating impunity for environmental crimes in Tshopo, Mongala and Bas-Uélé

The environment has become a crucial issue for the survival of the planet and humanity. This is due to more or less legal/legal human activities (poaching, illegal exploitation of natural resources, slash-and-burn agriculture, carbonisation, urbanisation, infrastructure, etc.), which have considerably increased the threats to the environment through emissions of gases that cause climate change and global warming. Therefore, in view of the ecological emergency, we must act now, quickly and effectively.

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DR Congo

Forests for a Just Future - Green Livelihoods Alliance

The ‘Forests for a Just Future’ programme of the Green Livelihoods Alliance (GLA) will contribute to the protection of tropical forests and the people who directly depend on those forests. With partner organisations in Africa, South East Asia and South America the GLA works to govern tropical forests in a sustainable and inclusive way.

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