Carving Up the Congo

http://www.greenpeace.org.uk/congo : International logging companies are causing social chaos and wreaking environmental havoc in the Democratic Republic of Congo, home of the world's second largest rainforest.

Our film reveals how the World Bank, by far the largest donor to the DRC, is failing to stop this destruction whilst the rainforest is being sold off under the illusion that it will alleviate poverty in one of the poorest countries on Earth.

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News & Politics

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• greenpeace
• environment
• forests
• africa
• development
• congo
• deforestation
• gorillas
• bonobos
• wildlife
• rainforest
• worldbank

[GreenpeaceUK]

lambXchop - racist comments of any kind are unacceptable and will be removed.

[GreenpeaceUK]

Hey urlilshawty33 - please don't bring your biggoted racist attitude on to our video pages ever again, ok?

[GreenpeaceUK]

Racist comments have been deleted from this board.

[marklosextremus]

@GreenpeaceUK Why supprese people opinions just because they dont go along with your own views? Im disgusted. What hypocrisy.

[GreenpeaceUK]

@marklosextremus Ok, can you clarify this a little? The only comments that get deleted from this board are those which are racist and abusive. I make no apologies for that and will continue to do so when necessary. People are free to debate and disagree with each other here, but that can easily be done without resorting to abuse.

[GreenpeaceUK]

aid is only part of the solution though, and certainly not a long term one. political and economic decisions need to be made that don't allow a free-for-all for the international logging companies, and allow the DRC to develop properly.

jamie

[a1mint]

It's always the same shit. Evil companies run by evil people using, abusing, and sucking dry anything in their way. Bribe money to pay off authorities and governments is likely. The only solution lies in putting the governing powers in the people's hands through *proper* democracy and audits.

[ladyamybrooks]

@GreenpeaceUK wow thats real sad , did the biggots even pay attention to the video ... smh ... all native people are beautiful and the world can learn so much from them and their ways of life , im native american and i agree that this has to be stopped ... not just stopped but done so before it is too late 

[mizong84]

@theJonesBunch right on target! Preach!

[Alara0625]

Bankers run the world and this is proof of it. Talking about it won't change a thing.

[speakswahilidammit]

Lovely video! I grew up in Tanzania, on the lake (see my video on youtube). I just came back to UK from a visit. What can I say..? Rampant bilharzia due to Nile Perch eating the snail-predators, mercurial poisoning of lake from illegal gold-miners, over-fishing, declining fish stocks, flourishing water hyacinth, growing population, grinding poverty, epidemic HIV levels...! The world seems to have a blind spot for this burgeoning catastrophe.

[LADORSEY]

dont trust the world bank

[kairitukega]

Magnificent country,shame about whats happening!

[Cozzi0]

The thing is these people do not want money because after the logging companies have come and employed them and given them money they leave and they cannot do anything with the money. These people value the rainforest because it provides them with everything they need to live. And so should we, what really is money? It has no value, nature is worth 100x more than money will ever be.

[thejonesbunch]

no. only us can change this through education, discussing among us, and finding a solution. do not wait for external help or invisible forces to help us. we are waiting for 2000 years. 1300 arab slavery and 400 european slavery, and the remaning being as the bottom of society worldwide. So, it is up to us. no religion, only knowlege.