Logging the Forests of the Congo Basin
Forest Destruction in the Congo Basin
Please Join Bank Information Center and TransAfrica Forum for a Brownbag Lunch Presentation and Discussion
Logging the Forests of the Congo Basin: Cameroonian and Congolese Students Demand That World Bank Avoid Repeating Mistakes
TransAfrica Forum, 1629 K Street, NW, Suite 1100, Washington, DC
As the Boards of Governors of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank Group (The World Bank) gather in Washington for their annual meetings, a group of African students are traveling across the ocean to call upon the bank ministers to stop forest destruction in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The students are arriving with 40,000 signatures asking the World Bank to not repeat the mistakes of their "Forest Reform" in Central Africa, which allowed the large scale expansion of industrial logging into intact rainforests.
Come join:
* Samuel Nguiffo—Director of the Center for Environment and Development (CED) in Yaounde, Cameroon and winner of the Goldman Environmental Award for Africa, 1999;
* Freddy Mumba Mukuba—agricultural engineer with the organization Center for National Development and People's Participation (CENADEP)from the DRC; and
* Jean Christian Ebanda—student-activist Christian of the Lycée Bilingue in Yaounde, Cameroon.
Their presentation will include a short film about the World Bank’s involvement in the forests of the Congo Basin, and the efforts of activists to challenge it.