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Cameroon's Minister of Forests and Wildlife has just granted an annual logging certificate to the company Sextransbois, which already holds a forest concession under a provisional agreement. But for civil society, the process of granting this certificate, which concerns an area of the Ebo forest massif straddling the Central and Coastal regions, was not carried out in accordance with the forestry legislation and regulations in force in Cameroon. This decision threatens the rights of the Banen communities, who have always demanded a return to their ancestral lands, as well as the biodiversity of this forest.
YAOUNDÉ It’s already been three years since the nearly 4,000 inhabitants of Apouh, a village in eastern Cameroon, have been locked in an intractable conflict with Socapalm, a local subsidiary of Belgian agriculture giant Socfin which owns plantations in a dozen African countries. The crux of the problem revolves around the population’s land claims. […]
A resplendent rainbow fish, a frog that looks like chocolate, a Thai tarantula, an anemone that rides on a back of a hermit crab, and the world’s largest waterlily are among the new species named by science in 2022. In this well-trodden world, finding a new species is a glimpse of the uncharted riches of […]