From truthout.org:
Vast Congo Rainforests Sold for "a Few Bags of Sugar"
http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/041107EA.shtml
The Odzala rainforest is part of the national park in central Democratic Republic of Congo. On February 8, 2005, representatives of a major timber firm arrived to negotiate a contract with the traditional landowners. Few in the village realized that the talks would transform all their lives, but in just a few hours, the chief, who had received no legal advice and did not realize that just one tree might be worth more than $7,500 in Europe, had signed away his community's rights in the forest for 25 years.
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