Environmental problems in DR Congo

The Congo Basin, second in size only to the mighty Amazon, loses close to 1.5 million hectares of forest cover every year. This amounts to about one-third of the 4 million hectares of forest destruction Africa experiences each year - an area roughly twice the size of Belgium.


A massive natural factory under stress

They may be extensive and bountiful, but the Democratic Republic of Congo’s tropical rainforests are no stranger to the ills that afflict forests elsewhere: illegal logging, agricultural expansion and poaching among several others.





What is WWF doing about the problems?
Detailed information on the environmental problems facing the forests of the Congo River Basin (including DR Congo), can be found in our special feature.

Loss of natural habitat

Bushmeat hunting

Mining

Conflict

Disease


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