An Opaque Agro-industry Razes Cameroon’s Forests with Impunity
“Are we ready to risk 60 thousand hectares for Camvert, a company that has no experience in oil palm...
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How Rosewood is stolen in Cameroon, laundered in Nigeria,…
As rosewood is getting rarer in Nigerian forests, traffickers wanting to continue to satisfy demands by Chinese, have been... -
DRC: A Polluting Palm Oil Business is Shaming European…
A century-old palm oil business in the DRC, Plantations et Huileries du Congo (PHC), has exposed the local population to tons... -
Large-scale logging forces indigenous Baka out of Cameroon’s rainforest
Expelled from the forest at the arrival of the logging company Pallisco, the forest indigenous Baka of Bidjoumam are... -
In the Congo rainforest, gold mining is killing forests…
At least 150 people have died in hazardous pits abandoned by the gold mines that are decimating Cameroon’s forests.... -
In Cameroon, illegal logging of high-value timber harms indigenous…
Indigenous people living in forest communities are now facing the worrying consequences of illegal logging when their medicine sources... -
Primary Forest Loss in Congo Basin Escalates in 2020
The second-largest world’s rainforest lost more than 600,000 hectares of primary forest in 2020, which is a 9 percent... -
Applications open for deforestation journalism fellowships in Africa
Environmental journalists in four African countries invited to apply for eight-week online course. Climate change and urban sprawl is... -
Wildlife in ‘catastrophic decline’ due to human destruction, scientists…
Wildlife populations have fallen by more than two-thirds in less than 50 years, according to a major report by... -
Land tenure: The legal battles of the indigenous Bagyeli…
In southern Cameroon, Indigenous Bagyeli communities and their Bantu neighbors take legal action against the Head of State’s decision,... -
Filled with Deadwood, Lom Pangar Dam Threatens Climate
Four years after it was launched, the Lom Pangar hydropower dam in Cameroon is full of floating wood and... -
National parks in Africa shutter over COVID-19 threat to…
Virunga National Park in the Democratic Republic of Congo shut its doors to tourists this week in an attempt... -
Call for Applications: Congo Basin Rainforest Journalism Fund Convening
The Pulitzer Center is pleased to announce, as part of the Rainforest Journalism Fund, that we are now accepting applications... -
NGOs reject new oil palm plantation in southern Cameroon
KRIBI, Cameroon — Alarm flashed through Cameroon’s conservation community in mid-September 2019, when images of untidy rows of black... -
Les pourparlers sur le climat de Madrid se sont…
Alors que de nombreux pays, particulièrement ceux qui sont le plus vulnérables aux impacts climatiques, s’attendaient à des négociations... -
Blog: The Amazon and the Congo Basin: the same…
Illegal logging, deforestation, land grabbing, pollution and climate change – questions of life and death for the Amazon people... -
Cameroon’s Rural Solar Energy Drive to Save Disappearing Forest
Cameroon is touting the construction of solar energy in electricity-starved rural communities across the country as part of the... -
Multiple, Massive Pangolin Seizures Highlight Poaching Crisis
Recent seizures of pangolin scales and meat in Malaysia, Hong Kong, Vietnam, and Uganda highlight the poaching crisis and... -
As Chinese Plantations Expand, Communities, Wildlife Feel the Pressure
Rodrique Ngono, 49, farmer and hunter in Miatta village, situated on the southern periphery of the Dja Wildlife Reserve... -
A Green Push Against Deforestation, Climate Change in Cameroon
As Cameroon takes on rising temperatures, floods, droughts, and other climate challenges, the government is partnering with major cities in... -
Maps Help Distinguish between cyclical farming and deforestation in…
How do you distinguish between cyclical farming and deforestation in the Congo Basin? A new Global Forest Watch map can... -
Seeds of Resilience in Cameroon
Seed multiplication farms are helping farmers in the southwest region of Cameroon fight climate change effects and poverty thanks... -
Invitation to apply for the 39th International Human…
A Canadian non-profit, Equitas invites organizations interested in human rights issues to apply for a three-week training on human... -
New Mobile App to Fight Deforestation Launched
Akame Clovis 43, a forest guard with the Ministry of Forestry and Wildlife marches through the Mefou National Park... -
Cameroun: L’assurance indicielle pour protéger les agriculteurs contre le…
Sorry, this entry is only available in French. Suite à une étude de faisabilité réalisée par la Banque Mondiale,... -
$400 Million For Rainforests
At the World Economic Forum, Norway announced it will set up a fund to make small-scale farmers more productive... -
ONU: L’Assemblée Générale examine les moyens de limiter l’augmentation…
Sorry, this entry is only available in French. L’Assemblée générale des Nations a été, le jeudi 23 mars, la... -
La réserve du Dja risque de perdre son statut…
Sorry, this entry is only available in French. D’ici 2018, si rien n’est fait, l’Unesco pourrait résilier son contrat... -
Mitigating Deforestation Risks of Palm Oil Expansion in Africa
For all the economic benefits the palm oil industry has brought to Indonesia and Malaysia, which together produce more... -
Communities Demand Clarity on Forest Revenue
Stepping into the forest in Djoameodjoh, a small locality in Lomie in the Upper Nyong division of the East... -
Illegal Logging Drives Deforestation in Cameroon
Bertoua, Eastern Cameroon — As night falls, scores of timber trucks line up at a weighing station outside the... -
Swapping Coffee, Cocoa for Pepper to Adapt to Extreme…
Andrew Kombe of Penja village located about 350 kilometers from Cameroon’s capital, Yaounde happily combs his four hectare Penja... -
Apply Now for Grant to Cover Stories, Maps and…
InfoCongo invites journalists, designers, developers, cartographers and data experts to submit a proposal for our stories, maps, and data... -
Journée mondiale de l’environnement et nouveau record de CO2
Sorry, this entry is only available in French. Avec la célébration de la journée mondiale de l’environnement, le 5... -
Gestion du pétrole et des mines : un rapport…
Sorry, this entry is only available in French. L’indice de gouvernance des ressources naturelles, publié mercredi 28 juin par... -
Commerce illégal des produits forestiers : la Chine, le…
Sorry, this entry is only available in French. Les acteurs du secteur forestier du Cameroun, du Congo et de... -
Cameroon’s Forest People Bear Hidden Cost of Government’s Ambitious…
Sitting in front of his mud house in Pangar village, one of the forest communities in the East region,... -
WWF Press release : G20 summit shows ambition on…
WWF statement as G20 Leaders’ Summit ends in Hamburg today Hamburg – As the G20 Leaders’ Summit concludes, WWF... -
How is the Congo Basin Affected by US Withdrawal…
Forests are central to the Climate Change Agreement signed in December 2015 by more than 190 countries and so... -
Three Arrested for Trafficking 159 Ivory Tusks
The tusks were stocked in a metallic seal and concealed in the back booth of a car. Said to... -
Poaching Still a Risk to African Elephants
Figures released by the CITES MIKE Program (Monitoring the Illegal Killing of Elephants) on the 2016 trends in the... -
Cameroon to Restore 12 Million Hectares of Forest
Cameroon has committed to restoring over 12 million hectares of deforested and degraded land by 2030 as part of... -
Celebrating Pangolins
The global development community celebrates World Pangolin Day on Saturday, February 18, 2017, under the theme “Together let’s protect... -
The Road to Destruction?
There is a growing network of logging roads in Cameroon’s eastern region, particularly along national parks and forest reserves.... -
Chinese Demand for Bloodwood Cuts Into Congo’s Ecosystem
Muyeji Freddy and his team have scoured the bush for hours, but they haven’t found what they’re looking for.... -
2016 likely the warmest year since records began
Full year figures for 2016 confirm it has just edged ahead of 2015 as the world’s warmest year. Data... -
World’s Largest Tropical Peatland Found in Congo Basin
Carbon-rich peatlands could store three years’ worth of world’s total fossil fuel emissions, say scientists Scientists have discovered the... -
Is Development and Conservation Reconcilable?
Development and conservation are perhaps the two most sought-after outcomes in sustainable interventions in the Congo Basin. Often, both goals... -
Mixed Reaction to Outcome of COP22
The United Nations Climate Change Summit ended in the Moroccan city of Marrakech on Friday, November 18, 2016, with... -
Billionaire’s elephant-hunting safaris implicated in “Pygmy” abuses
Survival International has learned that an elephant-hunting safari operation jointly owned by a French billionaire has been implicated in... -
Another Big Climate Win with Kigali Deal on HFCs
They went to Kigali to eliminate hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) and take 0.5C out of future global warming, and the 170... -
Closure of Domestic Ivory Markets Good News for Congo…
A non-binding call for the closure of all domestic ivory markets has been endorsed by delegates at the United... -
Africa’s Great Green Wall to Fight Climate Migration, Terrorism
The Great Green Wall project designed to plant trees to stop the advancement of the Sahara Desert, now presents... -
True Extent of Illegal Trade in Apes Revealed
Over 1,800 great apes were seized from an illicit live traffic that went undetected for over a decade but... -
Poaching Blamed for worst African elephant losses
Africa’s overall elephant population has seen the worst declines in 25 years, mainly due to poaching over the past... -
Greenpeace Africa Appoints New Executive Director
Kenyan-born Njeri Kabeberi has been named as Executive Director for Greenpeace Africa (www.GreenpeaceAfrica.org) after an extensive search for a... -
New study highlights disturbing working conditions of African rangers
Three out of every four African wildlife ranger say they have faced life threatening situations by community members or... -
Un accord dans le silence mais historique pour la…
Sorry, this entry is only available in French. 7 ans de négociations auront été nécessaire pour signer un accord... -
Major Congo Basin forest conference Underway in Rwanda
More than 500 participants are gathered in Kigali, Rwanda, to discuss the problems facing the Congo Basin and to... -
Pour la valorisation du métier d’écogarde en Afrique Centrale
Sorry, this entry is only available in French. Adopter des mesures particulières pour sécuriser et améliorer les rémunérations et... -
La chasse aux trophées demeure-t-elle un modèle économique rentable…
Sorry, this entry is only available in French. En tant qu’option dominante d’utilisation des terres, la chasse sportive a... -
Cameroun : Un musée pour la conservation de la…
Sorry, this entry is only available in French. « Préserver et promouvoir la biodiversité pour les générations futures »,... -
How Cameroon Farmers Are Coping with Drought
Self-driven small scale irrigation schemes near river banks and running streams are helping farmers in Akum, and Santa in... -
Here’s where tropical forests have been destroyed for palm…
Most oil palm is grown in areas that were once species-rich and carbon-rich tropical forests, thanks to the fact... -
Sustainable Forest Management Viewed from an Evaluation Lens
Forest emerged as central to stabilizing global climate in the past decade. And that has sort of dictated international... -
Bridging gaps critical to increasing the appeal of data…
Journalists from six Central African countries gathered in the Cameroonian capital of Yaoundé in late April to learn how... -
Does trophy hunting remain a profitable business model for…
As locally dominant land-use option, sport hunting has shown a declining profitability in Cameroon over the last decade, mainly... -
Mission sauvetage pour les forêts du Bassin du Congo
Sorry, this entry is only available in French. La Commission des Forêts d’Afrique Centrale, COMIFAC en sigle, est au... -
Africa drought fears grip Malawi and Mozambique
Food shortage fears over a drought in southern Africa have prompted Malawi to declare a state of national disaster... -
L’augmentation du méthane dans l’atmosphère inquiète
Sorry, this entry is only available in French. 28 fois plus réchauffant que le CO2, les émissions anthropiques de... -
UK sanctions traders for illegal Cameroon timber imports
British authorities have sanctioned more than a dozen UK importers sourcing wood from Cameroon. Illegal logging is a growing... -
Eavesdropping on Cameroon’s poachers to save endangered primates
Cameroon’s Korup National Park is home to elephants, chimpanzees, red colobus monkeys, drill, and a myriad of noisy species,... -
Consumption Patterns Decimating Africa’s wildlife
Wildlife in Africa and Cameroon, in particular, is under severe threat as appetite for snakes, pangolins, monkeys, ape, and... -
Marrakech et la bonne ambiance de l’entrée en vigueur…
Sorry, this entry is only available in French. C’est dans un climat de totale satisfaction par l’entrée en vigueur... -
Outcome of the Kigali Congo Basin Forest Partnership Meeting
A release sent out Tuesday, Nike Pas Cher December 06, NMD 2016 details out the major conclusions of the... -
Reflecting on 20 Years of US Investment in Central…
Actors of the Central African Program for the Environment (CARPE), have met on the sidelines of the World Conservation... -
Four out of six great apes one step away…
The Eastern Gorilla – the largest living primate – has been listed as Critically Endangered due to illegal hunting,... -
Cameroonian Farmers Drag Palm Oil Company to Court
SG Sustainable Oils Cameroon PLC (SGSOC), a palm oil developer in the Southwest Region of Cameroon has been dragged... -
Traffic-Cameroon destroys 2000kg of elephant tusks
Cameroon recently incinerated 2000 kg of elephant tusks and more than 1753 art objects made of ivory seized from... -
67% des vertébrés pourront disparaître d’ici 2020
Sorry, this entry is only available in French. Les populations des vertébrés (poissons, oiseaux, Nike Internationalist mammifères, amphibiens et... -
Cameroun : Les riverains à la base de la…
Sorry, this entry is only available in French. Les données fournies par l’Atlas forestier interactif du Cameroun sont sans... -
Dramatic Population Decline in African Savanna Elephants Revealed
Savanna elephant populations declined by 30 percent between 2007 and 2014, a major survey of elephants on the African... -
Logging roads have long-lasting impacts on forests
When logging roads appear in forests, they are often spotlighted by conservationists as harbingers of ecological harm to come.... -
Human impact on environment may be slowing down: new…
uman activities have taken a heavy toll on our environment. But there may be some hope, researchers say. Although human... -
Researchers say addressing the second D in REDD can…
Significant reductions in carbon emissions could be achieved by sustainable forestry practices in the tropics, researchers say — but... -
Cameroon timber traders Sanctioned
The UK Authorities charged with enforcing the EU timber regulations (EUTR), have taken action against 14 UK importers sourcing... -
Former Norwegian Minister Takes over at UNEP
Erik Solheim, a former Minister of Environment and International Development in Norway, began his tenure today as Executive Director of... -
Norway’s Zero Deforestation Commitment Good News for Congo Basin
Increased demand for tropical timber from global north countries fuels deforestation in the Congo Basin. Recently, Norway’s Parliament took... -
Renewable energy surges to record levels around the world
New solar, wind and hydropower sources were added in 2015 at the fastest rate the world has yet seen,... -
Trail of stolen Cameroon Wood Uncovered
A Greenpeace Africa investigation into illegal logging operations in Cameroon has uncovered a trail of stolen timber leading to... -
Soccer Star Stands with Elephants
Cote D’Ivoire’s soccer star, Yaya Toure has thrown his full support to a new campaign to end illegal wildlife... -
Who is really bearing the cost of REDD+?
A forthcoming study brings a reality check on who is footing the bill for REDD+. Local and state government institutions... -
Africa’s palm oil surge builds in Cameroon
Tucked amongst the hilltops of Yaoundé are the signs of a country and an economy on the move. Cameroonians... -
What’s the Plight and Exact Population of Central African…
Understanding lives of marginalized indigenous hunter-gatherers is the first step to defending them against loss of rights and access... -
“Good for Growth”, Africa’s Expanding Road Network May Hurt…
Many new road and rail ‘‘development corridors’’ planned to crisscross Africa in the name of economic development could destroy... -
How China Fuels Deforestation In Nigeria, West Africa
Corruption by local officials and sharp practices by Chinese businessmen drive a thriving illegal trade in timber from Nigeria... -
InfoCongo Feature Stories fund Launched
As part of the InfoCongo initiative we set a fund that will last for the next 3 years to... -
The year in rainforests: 2015
Between the landmark climate agreement signed in Paris in December 2015, Indonesia’s fire and haze crisis of the late... -
China’s demand for rosewood is destroying forests in Southeast…
China is the largest global consumer of rosewood and skyrocketing demand over the past decade and a half is... -
INSIDER: Understanding the Paris Agreement’s Long-term Goal to Limit…
The new international Paris Agreement on climate change aims to keep global warming to well below 2 degrees C...