EOTP Congo Basin Management Strategies
Management Strategy | Positives | Negatives |
Virunga National Park | tourism = jobs → 60,000 new jobs created for locals improved drinking water, health and education rangers have improved surveillance to decrease logging and poaching | costs a lot of money to run → employs 700 rangers in 2007 a family of mountain gorillas were killed |
World Bank Funding | $40m for 120,000 people makes a big impact because average wage is less than $500 per person per year reduce deforestation and introduce alternative farming = 5 million tonnes reduction in CO2 protects 100,000 hectares | kerosene still has harmful emissions money channelled through the government → historically corrupt focus on Kinshasa (urban) but 60% of people live in rural areas |
Sustainable Forest Certification from Forest Stewardship Council |