High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Deforestation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is a significant transnational issue. In the DRC forests are cleared for agricultural purposes by utilizing slash and burn techniques. More importantly, most of the deforestation occurs as a result of provisional living by the poor inhabitants; DRC citizens rank as the poorest in the world. Much of the population of the DRC lives in rural areas and depend on forests for their shelter as well as sustenance. In 1995, seventy percent of the population lived outside of cities and relied on forest products for food, shelter, and artisanal products. Additionally, residents greatly depend on fuelwood for their main source of energy. Collected fuelwood and charcoal are used for 95% of the whole country’s population energy needs. Aside from the visible depletion of resources, deforestation of the DRC also leads to a lost habit for the mountain gorilla among other rare species (loss of...

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