Global Witness names Chinese firm for illegal logging in DR Congo

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KINSHASA: A Chinese timber company exported millions of dollars of illegal timber from DR Congo to China last year, Global Witness said on Wednesday (Oct 25), despite Beijing's pledge to tackle global deforestation.

Using satellite imagery, the NGO reported that despite Chinese-owned Congo King Baisheng Forestry Development's logging concessions being suspended by the country's environment ministry in April 2022, the company continued to illegally log rare hardwood trees in the rainforest.

Global Witness, which says it challenges abuses of power to protect the environment and human rights, tracked shipping movements from the DRC to China and compared them with China Customs data.Brazil tells landowners to stop setting fires in Amazon 'climate emergency' The Congo basin boasts the world's second-largest tropical rainforest after the Amazon,"playing a vital role in regulating Earth's climate", the report said.

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