Logging in the Congo river basin forest

CAMEROON CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC

EQUATORIAL GUINEA

GABON

REPUBLIC OF

CONGO DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO

0 100200 Km

Primary forest cover Logging concessions

Gorilla habitat or Priority Area

Cross River Gorillas Western Lowland Gorillas

Grauer's Gorilla Mountain Gorillas

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Sources: Global Forest Watch, Bushmeat Interactive Map, accessed 23-02-2010; IUCN, 2009; CMS Gorilla Agreement, 2007, web published at http://www.naturalsciences.be/science/projects/gorilla,

accessed in March 2010; WHRC, Scientists Using Remote Sensing Tools to Study Expansion of Industrial Logging in Central Africa, 2007.