50% of the Congo Basin forest has been allocated for logging
The Congo rainforest is known for its high levels of biodiversity, including more than 600 tree species and 10,000 animal species
The Congo Basin is the only place to shelter all three subspecies of gorilla: the lowland gorilla, the endemic eastern lowland gorilla and the endangered mountain gorilla
The Congo Basin, second in size only to the mighty Amazon, loses close to 1.5 million hectares of forest cover every year
From 2000 - 2015 an area of the rainforest bigger than Bangladesh was destroyed and every day this increases meaning that the Congo’s biodiversity will decrease with its forest elephant population decreasing by 60% in the last decade
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