Permalink: https://photo.greenpeace.org/archive/Women-Selling-Fruit-in-Congo-27MZIF3O04E.htmlConceptually similarWorker at Palm Oil Plantation in CongoGP0HW1Completed★★★★Villagers gather Rice in CongoGP01HHCompleted★★★★Worker at Palm Oil Plantation in CongoGP0A5ICompleted★★★★Woman Preparing Food in CongoGP01HGCompleted★★★★Worker at Palm Oil Plantation in CongoGP02RQCompleted★★★★Woman Gathering VegetablesGP0NW6Completed★★★★Woman Cleaning VegetablesGP0XQLCompleted★★★★Woman in CongoGP01DL9Completed★★★★Woman Carrying Wood in CongoGP07YSCompleted★★★★View AllGP057EWomen Selling Fruit in CongoYoung women in a canoe sell fruit and other products to larger boats that pass by their village. People in the village survive almost entirely on the products they find and grow. The World Bank and other donors view logging as a way to alleviate poverty and promote economic development. Expansion of logging into remaining areas of intact forests in the Democratic Republic of the Congo will destroy globally critical carbon reserves and impact biodiversity. Approximately 40 million people in the DRC depend on the rainforest for their basic needs, such as medicine, food or shelter.Locations:Africa-Central Africa-Democratic Republic of the Congo-LokutuDate:8 Oct, 2006Credit:© Greenpeace / Jan-Joseph StokMaximum size:4368px X 2912pxKeywords:Bananas-Canoes-Day-Forests (campaign title)-Girls-Indigenous People-Kayaks-KWCI (GPI)-Local population-Native Africans-Outdoors-Rivers-Three people-Women-Young adultsShoot:Democratic Republic Congo Forests Documentation 2006The second largest rainforest in the world sits in the Congo basin of Africa. About half of this forest, still largely intact, lies in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and supports more species of birds and mammals than any other African region. The rainforests are also critical for its human inhabitants, who depend upon the rainforests to provide essential food, medicine, and other non-timber products, along with energy and building materials. The World Bank and other donors view logging as a way to alleviate poverty and promote economic development. In reality, expansion of logging into remaining areas of intact forests in the Democratic Republic of the Congo will destroy globally critical carbon reserves and impact biodiversity. Beyond environmental impacts, logging in the region exacerbates poverty and leads to social conflicts.
