Abstract: The search for wood with desired properties submits the Congo Basin (CB) forests to a selective logging.

The active array modules each include an integrated polarizer for selectably operating with either right-hand circularly polarized signals or left-hand polarized signals.

But even seemingly intact forests can be degraded or disturbed by selective logging, environmental change, wildfires or disease.

Whether the operation is labelled as “science” or “research” and the slaughter as “harvesting,” “management,” “selective use” or “utilisation of resources,” for the whales it simply means “death.