Press Release: The European Commission grants a further EUR38 million for the ECOFAC programme for the conservation and sustainable management of Central Africa’s forests

With its new €38 million ECOFAC IV programme, the European Commission was stepping up its funding for the conservation of Central Africa’s wet tropical forests. The aim was to guarantee the long-term conservation and sustainable management of natural resources in seven Central African countries: Cameroon, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon and São Tomé and Príncipe. The return to the programme of the DRC, which accounts for half of the region’s woodlands, meant that the programme would now cover 180 000 km2 of tropical forest and savannah ecosystems.

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