The environmental history of Central Africa as a whole

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Central Africa Moves to Look After its Forest

By Lyne Mikangou, IPS, 13 October 1998. Under the guise of globalisation and its principle of free enterprise, many foreign logging companies have invaded the world's second largest tropical rainforest to cut its trees. The countries that share it have decided to come together to protect its biodiversity and face up to the challenges posed by economic globalisation.