Mambasa Territory

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| subdivision_type1 = Province

| subdivision_name1 = Ituri

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| seat = Mambasa

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| area_footnotes = {{cite web | title=Cellule d'Analyses des Indicateurs de Développement | website=caid.cd | url=https://www.caid.cd/index.php/donnees-par-province-administrative/province-de-ituri/territoire-de-mambasa/?secteur=fiche | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210424080345/https://www.caid.cd/index.php/donnees-par-province-administrative/province-de-ituri/territoire-de-mambasa/?secteur=fiche | archive-date=2021-04-24 | url-status=dead | language=fr | access-date=2023-03-26}}

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| population_total = 989,565

| population_as_of = 2020

| population_density_km2 = auto

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Mambasa Territory is an administrative area in the Ituri Province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

The headquarters is in the town of Mambasa.{{cite web

|url=http://www.ikvpaxchristi.nl/files/Documenten/AF%20Congo/IKV%20CONGO%20MINING.pdf

|title=A case study of the Nia-Nia area, Ituri District, Province Orientale

|publisher=IKV Pax Christi

|author=Peer Schouten

|date=March 2011

|accessdate=2011-10-11

|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110913064102/http://www.ikvpaxchristi.nl/files/Documenten/AF%20Congo/IKV%20CONGO%20MINING.pdf

|archive-date=2011-09-13

|url-status=dead

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Mambasa Territory is threatened with deforestation due to illegal forestry to meet high demand for lumber by the bordering countries of Rwanda, Uganda, Burundi and Kenya, as well as to slash and burn cultivation and growing demand for fuel-wood by large numbers of immigrants from the east.{{cite web

|url=http://www.afdb.org/fileadmin/uploads/afdb/Documents/Project-and-Operations/DRC%20-%20Mambasa%20Pilot%20Project%20-%20CBFF%20-%20APPROVED.pdf

|title=MAMBASA GEOGRAPHICALLY-INTEGRATED REDD PILOT PROJECT

|date=December 2010

|publisher=AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK

|accessdate=2011-10-11}}