6. what you think can be done to improve (or maintain positive) human impacts on the ecosystem.

To improve human impacts on the Congo, it is important that threatening activities such as commercial logging, limiting or getting rid of subsistence agriculture, and civil strife that has overwhelmed forests, displaced forests. Because logging is such a commodity in the Congo, Congo plans to increase commercial logging. If commercial logging was minimized, it would slowly help restore the Congo rainforests. The more cutting that occurs, the more the Congo is in danger. The deforestation in the Congo is caused by subsistence agriculture. Because poor farmers use forests lands for farming and cultivation, techniques like slash and burn that are used to get rid of the trees in the rainforests continue to have a negative impact on the ecosystem (Butler,2007) .If rules were put in place about how much subsistence agriculture could be done or completely bring an end to subsistence agriculture or section a certain part of the rainforest off that can be used for cultivation. Also, since the mid -90’s civil strife (violence) has hit Africa.  Many refugees have made its way through the Congo killing wildlife and vegetation. This leads to animals being taken out of their natural habitat and making the population of endangered species even smaller. In essence, a policy needs to be put in place restricting people from having access to the Congo rainforests or limiting the area in which people have access too. Putting a policy in place will, help sustain the rainforest and protect the wildlife and vegetation. With policies enforced, it will help the Congo begin restoration to the devastated areas and it will also help secure the Congo so it will have a long lasting stamina for future generations to experience