Who is logging the Congo

10Directeur des Exploitations Forestieres Bangui, Central African Republic INDUSTRIAL logging has several decades of tradition in the Congo Basin. During this period the industry has evolved and diversified, spreading to all the countries of the region and adapting to local and international conditions—yet it tends to be perceived as static and internally homogeneous (Greenpeace Switzerland no date). We believe that understanding the industry’s diversity and characterising the main factors that influence change is an important element of improving national and regional policies aimed at the sustainable management of the Congo Basin forests.