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Figure 8:
Charcoal business in the Virunga area.
Figure 7:
As valuable timber becomes rare outside of parks,
militias enter parks and illegally cut and produce charcoal inside
parks – even the best protected park of the Virungas housing
large shares of the Worlds remaining mountain gorilla popula-
tion. Rangers here destroyed over a thousand kilns for charcoal
inside the park in 2009.
30
0.5
2
Total annual value
of Goma charcoal
market
Charcoal business in Virunga area
Millions of US Dollars
Estimates of taxes annually
collected from charcoal trade
by CNDP in Kingi market
Estimate of taxes annually collected
from charcoal production by Congo
Army (FDLR) in Rutshuru
Sources: UNSC, S/2008/773.
Lake
Edward
Lake Kivu
Virunga
National
Park
Volcanoes
National Park
Mgahinga
Gorilla National
Park
Bwindi
Impenetrable
National Park
Biundu
Goma
Kingi
Kriolirwe
Burungu
Kibati
Kibumba
Rutshuru
RWANDA
DEMOCRATIC
REPUBLIC
OF CONGO
UGANDA
Sources: UNSC, S/2008/773;
Central African Regional
Program for the
Environment, 2007; ICCN.
National Park
Illegal deforested area
between 2003 and 2006
Refugee camp
Main charcoal trade
and destinations
Patrol checkpoint
Charcoal illegal trade
5 Km 0