CONGO, 27th Sept 2012: A labourer for Sinohydro building a major new tarmac road through virgin forest with two animals he just killed for bush-meat.
CONGO, 27th Sept 2012: A labourer for Sinohydro building a major new tarmac road through virgin forest with two animals he just killed for bush-meat. The Chinese company Sinohydro are cutting a path for a major new tarmac road to Sembe through the forests of the Tridom. This road will have a disastrous impact on the forest and its wildlife. The Tridom project area is within the world's second-largest rainforest, the Western Congo Basin Moist Forest in Central Africa. This region, one of the richest eco-regions in Africa in terms of biodiversity, faces increasingly severe threats from commercial logging and mining. The area is also a target for large-scale commercial hunting of wild meat and ivory, which often uses logging concession access roads.
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