* Experts in Congo for talks on saving big three forests
* Poor countries need incentives to save forest
By Jonny Hogg
GEMENA, Democratic Republic of the Congo, May 31 (Reuters)
“Environmental experts from 35 countries were meeting in the Congo Republic, DRC’s smaller neighbour, on Tuesday for a week-long summit seeking ways to protect the world’s three largest rainforests — the Amazon in South America, the Congo in Central Africa and the Borneo-Mekong in Indonesia.
The outcome of the summit could play a role in the preservation of some 80 percent of the world’s remaining tropical forest, seen by experts as key to offsetting rising global emissions of heat-trapping carbon dioxide.
But any such effort will have to offer poor residents of forest areas a reason to stop felling trees. Deforestation causes roughly a fifth of global emissions.
Congo Republic announced on Tuesday a plan to replant trees on 1 million hectares of land by 2020. The Congo Basin covers more than 200 million hectares, spanning six countries, according to the World Wildlife Fund.”
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I am very much interested in the forest conservation in the Congo. However I am a Ugandan and the experience the poor in Congo are going through is not much different from those in our country.
I think it would be important to empower the poor people so as to start some income generation by using available raw materials and giving them financial management skills for a good sustainable ventures. Also coming to exchange important experiences within our regions would help us learn some thing worthy paying attention to.
What is really urgent in my opinion is to learn to work together for a common good. I strongly believe that the available natural resources in the Congo is not fully tapped and utilized. There is therefore the need for sensitization of the community and helping them tap what is available, transform them into economic activity and reap the fruits.