Independent: The Congo rainforest, the second largest tropical forest in the world, has been handed a temporary lifeline after two-thirds of timber concessions were cancelled this week. The government of the Democratic Republic of Congo has ripped up 91 contracts after a review of the notoriously corrupt and damaging logging sector in a country the size of Western Europe. Greenpeace’s Africa forest expert Rene Ngongo gave a cautious welcome to the decision: “This is good news,” he said by …