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ITB SEES FOREST MANAGEMENT PLANS AS A PAPER EXERCISE ‘TO PLEASE THE WORLD BANK’ The requirement of the Forestry Code that each logging company draw up a management plan for every concession it holds is viewed dismissively by some logging companies, this is unsurprising given the country’s lack of enforcement capacity. The Lebanese company Industrie de Transformation de Bois (ITB) is operating adjacent to the Lake Télé-Lake Tumba Swamp Forest landscape, 140 the most extensive block of swamp and seasonally inundated forest in Africa. The landscape is important for the conservation of bonobo and other threatened species. The CBFP has identified this area as key for biodiversity conservation planning in the Congo Basin. ITB is already logging in the area, and it appears that the company considers the preparation of a forest management plan for its titles to be a bureaucratic formality. In the presence of <strong>Greenpeace</strong> investigators, ITB’s chief forester (chef de chantier) in Bikoro admitted: ‘The people who are preparing regulations for management plans have no idea of the reality on the ground … We are going to present a management plan to please the World Bank.’ 141 The company has built a logyard and wharf near Bikoro in a bay at the edge of Lake Tumba. (The company’s logs are stored there before they are shipped to Kinshasa, where they are either processed in its sawmill or go on for export to Europe.) However, this bay was well known to be an important breeding ground for various fish populations. Since fish stocks in the lake are already threatened by overfishing, the loss of this area will create further pressure. With local people relying on fish for 90% of their protein, 142 this has the potential for serious social as well as environmental consequences, which could have been avoided. Even in the absence of proper land use planning, local consultation and the development of a properly constituted and enforced management plan prior to the commencement of logging would have helped ensure that the resources upon which the local population depended were protected. Timber from ITB is imported into European countries including Belgium, France, Italy and Portugal. Interholco (Danzer’s trading branch) is a client of ITB. 143 ©<strong>Greenpeace</strong>/Reynaers ‘The other reforms we intended to undertake were delayed and had to be postponed, particularly the implementation of the Program to Secure Forestry Revenue, the transfer of 40% of the area tax receipts to local governments, the preparation and adoption of regulations implementing the Forestry Code (awarding of concessions, exploitation and development, and combating illegal operations), and the submission to Parliament of the draft Law on the Conservation of Nature.’ 144 DRC Government
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