Protecting the Nsoli Na Mato Rainforest

Approximately 40 million people in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) depend on the rainforest for their basic needs, such as medicine, food or shelter. Peace Tree International (PTI), a local US based NGO, and Dilo Assistance, a Congolese NGO, have joined together to acquire the land rights to the Bantomba ancestral lands in the Lac Tumba region of the Democratic Republic of Congo at the request of the Bantomba tribal leaders. The project started as a dream of Godi Godar Moteke Molanga to draw awareness to the devastation that logging and minerals extraction is wreaking on areas of the DRC. Your support will help Godi reach 3 main goals:
1) Preserve biologically diverse ecosystems through the creation and management of strategic conservation areas.
2) Collaborate with local and indigenous groups, who depend directly on natural areas, to develop community based land management practices integrating agro-ecological design, conservation and traditional ecological knowledge.
3) Encourage ecological health and social well-being by addressing water quality, soil conservation, wildlife protection, and conservation of threatened ecosystems.

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