Boteka Concession

Satellite image April 25, 2019. © 2019 ESA.

The Boteka agricultural concession, located in the northwestern province of Équateur, spans over 6,000 hectares, of which 3,667 are planted with oil palm, according to the plantation’s social environmental impact report which was approved by the Congolese government in 2017. The company’s palm oil mill dumps its effluents on the Momboyo River, a tributary of the Congo River.

Sources: Satellite image April 25, 2019. © 2019 ESA. The boundaries of the agricultural concessions and planted areas were uploaded by Feronia on MapHubs on January 11, 2017, https://feronia.maphubs.com/layer/info/103/Boteka-Planted-Areas#12.84/-0.451/19.1089 (accessed July 25, 2019). Waterways data: Open Street Map (accessed July 24, 2019). Location of the palm oil mill available on OpenStreetMap, https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/651138268 (accessed July 25, 2019); Human Rights Watch researchers also conducted a visit to the mill in November 2018.