Congo Basin Agreement.

RAIN forests; ENVIRONMENTAL protection; INTERNATIONAL obligations; TREATIES; LOGGING; POACHING; FORESTS & forestry -- Environmental conditions

CONGO (Democratic Republic)Report Available; SAO Tome & Principe; GABONReport Available; EQUATORIAL GuineaReport Available; CHADReport Available; CENTRAL African RepublicReport Available; AFRICA

Reports that leaders of seven African nations have signed a treaty to protect the rain forest in the Congo basin. Rate at which African forests are declining due to logging; Damage done to the ecosystem by poaching and the bushmeat trade; Goal of the treaty, which is to protect 772,000 sq. miles of African forest shared by the Republic of Congo, Gabon, São Tomé, Equatorial Guinea, Congo, Chad and Central African Republic.