Cameroon government again opens way for logging in Ebo Forest mongabay.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from mongabay.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
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.
A few years ago, I found myself in the Baka indigenous sacred forest in Assok, in Cameroon in the course of my work in supporting them to preserve their forest against land grabbers.
A few years ago, I found myself in the Baka indigenous sacred forest in Assok, in Cameroon in the course of my work in supporting them to preserve their forest against land grabbers. We were building
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