CONGO, 26th Sept 2012: These man are building a raft of illegally logged timber to float downstream for sale.

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CONGO, 26th Sept 2012: These man are building a raft of illegally logged timber to float downstream for sale from the forest in the heart of the Tridom. 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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