Urban reforestation, a tool for survival and development in Kinshasa

In 1992, Ruckelshaus quoted by Silvers and Defrie said: the Environment has a fever, man is the virus (Prof Binzangi Kamalandwa, 2011). Who is this man without conscience who cuts trees along the main arteries, clears green spaces for buildings, diverts the finances allocated to urban reforestation without prior environmental impact studies? To this question, a man who has just spent a week in Kinshasa can easily hold the answer in his mouth: "the Congolese himself".The Democratic Republic of Congo is a large country in the center of Africa, qualified as a geological, environmental and freshwater scandal, deserves modern green and attractive cities, but the leadership at all levels does not print a strong system of governance especially visionary to beautify the main arteries, fight against climate change and / or heat islands in urban areas, creating microclimates in the main avenues of the city province of Kinshasa, on the other hand, the negative evolution of green spaces, botanical and zoological garden does not contribute to the city development.