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The DRC is one of 17 megadiverse countries, with a significant wildlife that is harmed by habitat loss. For example, 60% of the forest elephant population drop is due to the loss of shelter caused by illegal logging. [6] From 1990 to 2015, the rate of deforestation in the DRC remained constant at 0.2%, that is 311,000 hectares, or roughly 1,200 ...
Major environmental issues in DRC include deforestation, poaching, which threatens wildlife populations, water pollution and mining. A dense tropical rainforest in the DRC's central river basin and eastern highlands is bordered on the east by the Albertine Rift (the western branch of Africa's Great Rift System).
Deaths. 41+. The 2019–2020 Congo River floods resulted from torrential rains from October 2019 to January 2020 that caused the overflow of the Congo and Ubangi rivers, floods and landslides throughout the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Republic of Congo (RoC) and led to the displacement of hundreds of thousands of people. [1]
Women are paid only a fraction of the paltry sums paid to men for their mining work (Siddharth Kara) In one passage, Mr Kara meets Bisette, a mother whose son was buried alive with others after a ...
In a child marriage, one or both parties are under the age of eighteen years old. [19] In the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), 37% of girls are married before they turn eighteen, and 10% of girls are married before age fifteen. [18] Though significantly less than the rate of child marriage for girls, 6% of boys in the DRC are married ...
Virunga. (film) Virunga is a 2014 British documentary film directed by Orlando von Einsiedel. It focuses on the conservation work of park rangers within the Congo 's Virunga National Park during the rise of the violent M23 Rebellion in 2012 and investigates the activity of the British oil company Soco International within the UNESCO World ...
Women and the environment. In the early 1960s, an interest in women and their connection with the environment was sparked largely by Ester Boserup 's book Woman's Role in Economic Development. [1] Starting in the 1980s, policy makers and governments became more mindful of the connection between the environment and gender issues. [2]
The UN recommendations on water issues in the DRC had a target date of 2015, in line with the UN Millennium Development Goals. The global UN Millennium Development Goals Report 2015 is already available. [18] However, a detailed evaluation of the current situation of the water sector in the Democratic Republic of Congo has not been published yet.