Permalink: https://media.greenpeace.org/archive/Forest-Documentation-in-Cameroon-27MZIFLX1KIB.htmlConceptually similarForest Documentation in CameroonGP01321Completed★★★★Forest Documentation in CameroonGP09MECompleted★★★★Forest Documentation in CameroonGP0BSCCompleted★★★★★★Forest Documentation in CameroonGP0124ECompleted★★★★Forest Documentation in CameroonGP0WS6Completed★★★★Forest Documentation in CameroonGP0TTUCompleted★★★★★★Forest Documentation in CameroonGP0AQCCompleted★★★★Forest Documentation in CameroonGP01GKTCompleted★★★★Forest Documentation in CameroonGP07Z6Completed★★★★View AllGP012LHForest Documentation in CameroonLocals hand weave rugs for matting. The Congo forests are of global significance for biodiversity conservation and of critical importance in climate regulation. Millions of people depend on them for their basic needs of shelter, food and medicine. The biggest areas of yet largely intact rainforest are found within the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The World Bank and its donors are promoting a similar model of industrial logging in the DRC to the one they advocated in the Cameroon a decade ago under the illusion that it will alleviate poverty and help the country’s economic development. So far, rather than fast tracking development and alleviating poverty, industrial logging has caused environmental destruction and social conflict and is failing both the rainforests and the people of the Cameroon in numerous ways. It is leading to the degradation of much of the Cameroon’s rainforest and has done little to reduce poverty. Wildlife species are suffering as new logging roads provide easy access for hunters into otherwise inaccessible areas. Unless the World Bank learns from its mistakes in the Cameroon and reviews its development model, the people and rainforests of the DRC will suffer a similar fate but the scale will be far greater.Locations:Africa-Cameroon-Eastern Province-MoloundouDate:7 Dec, 2006Credit:© Greenpeace / Kate DavisonMaximum size:4368px X 2912pxKeywords:Close ups-Craftspeople-Day-Forests (campaign title)-Hands-Indigenous People-KWCI (GPI)-Local population-Native Africans-Outdoors-Rainforests-WomenShoot:Impacts of Logging in Rainforests CameroonThe Congo forests are the second largest rainforests on earth after the Amazon. They are of global significance for biodiversity conservation and of critical importance in climate regulation. Millions of people depend on them for their basic needs of shelter, food and medicine. The biggest areas of yet largely intact rainforest are found within the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The World Bank and its donors are promoting a similar model of industrial logging in the DRC to the one they advocated in the Cameroon a decade ago under the illusion that it will alleviate poverty and help the country’s economic development. So far, rather than fast tracking development and alleviating poverty, industrial logging has caused environmental destruction and social conflict and is failing both the rainforests and the people of the Cameroon in numerous ways. It is leading to the degradation of much of the Cameroon’s rainforest and has done little to reduce poverty. Wildlife species are suffering as new logging roads provide easy access for hunters into otherwise inaccessible areas. Unless the World Bank learns from its mistakes in the Cameroon and reviews its development model, the people and rainforests of the DRC will suffer a similar fate but the scale will be far greater.
