Deforestation

Logging and road building are expanding dramatically in the Congo Basin

Logging and road building are expanding dramatically in the Congo Basin

Logging roads are expanding dramatically in the Congo Basin, leading to catastrophic collapses in animal populations living in the world’s second-largest rainforest, according to research co-led by a scientist at James Cook University in Australia. Just as worrying is that the rate of forest destruction caused by new roads in the Congo Basin has risen…