| The Congo
Basin Partnership aims to provide people with the
means needed to establish sustainable livelihoods through
initiatives such as well-managed forestry concessions,
sustainable agriculture, and integrated ecotourism programs.
The partnership is also working to improve the governance
of forests and other natural resources through community-based
management, combating illegal logging, and enforcing
anti-poaching laws while developing a network of effectively
managed national parks, protected areas, and corridors.
One of the partnership’s primary aims is to preserve
the central African rainforest from indiscriminate logging,
discourage land encroachment by business interests and
farmers, and stop commercial hunting of wild animals,
including the African great apes, for food. The Jane
Goodall Institute will lend expertise based upon our
conservation research in the Congo Basin area and our
highly successful TACARE program for conservation and
community development, currently in its ninth year of
operation in Tanzania.
Visit the
Congo Basin Forest Partnership Homepage
The governments of the Congo Basin:
Cameroon
Central African Republic
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Equatorial Guinea
Gabon
Republic of Congo
The governments of:
United States
United Kingdom
Japan
Germany
France
South Africa
European Commission
NGOs:
Conservation International, Wildlife
Conservation Society
World Wildlife Fund
World Resources Institute
Forest Trends
Society of American Foresters
U.S. and International Businesses:
American Forest and Paper Association
Association Technique Internationale des Bois Tropicaux-ATIBT
International Organizations:
World Bank
International Tropical Timber Organization
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