Entrance of the Siforco worksite

The Swiss-based Danzer Group controls over 20,000 square kilometers of the Democratic Republic of Congo. This sign is at the entry of the worksite of Siforco, Engengele.

Unique identifier: GP02KR9

Type: Image

Shoot date: 01/05/2011

Locations: Africa, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Équateur

Credit line: © Greenpeace

Ranking: ★★★★ (E)

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Siforco's crimes on a forest community in the DRC

Greenpeace releases on 2011 November 7th a briefing reporting the involvement of the German-owned Swiss-based logging group Danzer via its Congolese subsidiary SIFORCO in abuses and violence on a forest community on May 2nd in the Village of Bossanga (Equator Province – Bumba territory). The briefing reports the unacceptable practices of Danzer Group in DRC, the broken promises of Logging sector and denounces the support given by a lot of donors countries in DRC, as France (Agence Française du Développement), Germany (KFW), Netherlands, etc.

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