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Other names for this vine are eta, the white rubber vine and the Congo rubber plant. [2] Congo rubber was a commercial rubber exported from the Congo Free State starting in 1890, most notable for its forced harvesting under conditions of great human suffering, in the Congo Free State , detailed in the 1904 Casement Report . [ 3 ]
The Abir Congo Company (founded as the Anglo-Belgian India Rubber Company and later known as the Compagnie du Congo Belge) was a company that exploited natural rubber in the Congo Free State, the private property of King Leopold II of Belgium. The company was founded with British and Belgian capital and was based in Belgium.
Congo Free State concession companies, Lulonga Company shown in yellow. The Lulonga Company was a concession company of the Congo Free State. [1] It was, with the Société Anversoise and the Abir Congo Company, one of the main producers of rubber in the Free State. [2]
A Sapele tree in the Republic of the Congo. The Congolian rainforest is the world's second-largest tropical forest, after the Amazon rainforest.It covers over 500,000,000 acres (2,000,000 km 2) across six countries and contains a quarter of the world's remaining tropical forest.
Castilla elastica—the principal source of latex rubber among the pre-Columbian Mesoamerican peoples; Landolphia owariensis—a liana that was the primary source of Congo rubber; List of plants of Amazon Rainforest vegetation of Brazil; Red Rubber Scandal—was one of the first humanitarian global campaigns but concerned the rubber vine species
Congo Free State concession companies. Kasai (green) in southwest. The Congo Free State and the 14 companies agreed to form a new body, the Compagnie du Kasai (Kasai Company) with head office at Dima in the Congo and administrative headquarters in Belgium. It would take over the facilities of the 14 companies such as buildings, boats and stocks ...
Hundreds of scientists at the United Nations COP28 climate summit on Sunday launched a research coalition aimed at correcting a historic lack of information about the Congo River basin and its ...
Basankusu was the first trading post of the Abir Congo Company (ABIR) along the Congo River from Kinshasa (then known as Leopoldville), the capital of the Congo. Later known as the Compagnie du Congo Belge, the Abir Congo Company harvested natural rubber in the 19th and early 20th century.