The Democratic Republic Of Congo Will Allow Logging In Its Rainforests

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These rainforests are teeming with life. GUDKOV ANDREY/Shutterstock

The government of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has said that it plans to remove a moratorium on industrial logging in the Congo Basin. At 500 million acres, it is larger than the state of Alaska, twice the size of Texas, and contains the second-largest tract of tropical rainforest in the world.