 Figure 7: As valuable timber becomes rare outside of parks, militias enter parks and illegally cut and produce charcoal inside parks – even the best protected park of the Virungas housing large shares of the Worlds remaining mountain gorilla popula- tion. Rangers here destroyed over a thousand kilns for charcoal inside the park in 2009.

Charcoal illegal trade

Lake Edward

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Charcoal business in Virunga area

Millions of US Dollars

Total annual value of Goma charcoal market

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Estimate of taxes annually collected from charcoal production by Congo Army (FDLR) in Rutshuru

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Estimates of taxes annually collected from charcoal trade by CNDP in Kingi market

Figure 8: Charcoal business in the Virunga area.

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Sources: UNSC, S/2008/773.

Lake Kivu

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Sources: UNSC, S/2008/773; Central African Regional Program for the

Environment, 2007; ICCN.

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Illegal deforested area between 2003 and 2006

Refugee camp Main charcoal trade and destinations Patrol checkpoint

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Gorilla National Park

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Virunga National Park

Volcanoes National Park

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