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Conservation Challenges in Congo: Solutions and Strategies

Explore the key issues in Congo including timber industry problems, plantation expansions, bushmeat hunting, and Bonobo extinction. Learn about potential solutions to protect the environment and wildlife. Sources cited for further reading.

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Conservation Challenges in Congo: Solutions and Strategies

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  1. The key To the Issues in Congo By Tom Ferlic

  2. The First Problem • Timber industry is becoming a major faction in trouble • Some loggers are doing it legally; others are not • Results: Destroys land, animal’s habitats and the area overall being depopulated • Possible Solution (s): Guard the forests or make them national parks( therefore they are protected) • Weaker Solution: Find elsewhere for replacement of timber

  3. Too Many Plantations! • Some of the land that is not or already in usage both are being used for plantations • This started earlier and was influenced by European colonization • Exports from plantations of “Shell” enterprises have had major exports, to France, Norway etc • Solution(s): Possibly divide the same land but share the land plots so there are fewer • Make it so property taxes increase

  4. Bushmeat Hunting • Bushmeat hunting-is the hunting of animals for trade in their pelts-(poaching) • It is common and has been around for years and caused multi-billion dollars • It ravishes the land of species and makes animals endangered (tiger, elephant, hippos) • Demands for pelts and ivory are high • Solutions:make iIlegal other places, and if people still commit to doing it-1 year of prison penalty

  5. Bonobo Stew • People usually eat the orangutan as a source of nutrition • The Bonobo is becoming extinct as the cause of this • Solution: Use the goat (domesticated) as an alternative protein source. • The Bonobo is a part of the chimp family and is the closest to the hominid family • Cows are not good, because they are huge and chickens are too little (no refrigeration)

  6. Works Cited • "Congo, R.: Shell's eucalyptus plantations now provide even fewer jobs." World Rainforest Movement. Web. 18 Feb. 2010. <http://www.wrm.org.uy/bulletin/46/Congo.html>. • "Poachers in Congo slaughter 14 elephants - Telegraph." Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph - Telegraph. Web. 18 Feb. 2010. <http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/earthnews/3341346/Poachers-in-Congo-slaughter-14-elephants.html>. • "WWF - Poaching and bushmeat trade in the Congo River Basin." WWF - WWF. Web. 18 Feb. 2010. <http://www.panda.org/what_we_do/where_we_work/congo_basin_forests/problems/poaching_and_bushmeat_trade/>. • "WWF - Problems in the Congo River Basin Forests." WWF - WWF. Web. 18 Feb. 2010. <http://www.panda.org/what_we_do/where_we_work/congo_basin_forests/problems/>.

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