Permalink: https://media.greenpeace.org/archive/Korup-National-Park-in-Cameroon-27MDHU52BI.htmlConceptually similarMana River in CameroonGP11FICompleted★★★★Mana River in CameroonGP11FJCompleted★★★★★★Mana River in CameroonGP11FKCompleted★★★★★★PAMOL Plantation in CameroonGP11FMCompleted★★★★Korup National Park in CameroonGP0STQ65ICompleted★★★★River in CameroonGP11EACompleted★★★★Palm Oil Farm in CameroonGP11FLCompleted★★★★Korup National Park in CameroonGP11G2Completed★★★★Old Grown Tree in CameroonGP11ECCompleted★★★★View AllGP11G1Korup National Park in CameroonThe entrance of Korup National park. This hanging bridge crosses the Mana River. One of its legs stands in an oil palm plantation, while the other steps in the primary forest of Korup National park.Locations:Africa-Cameroon-Mana RiverDate:15 Feb, 2012Credit:© Jan-Joseph Stok / GreenpeaceMaximum size:5616px X 3744pxKeywords:Bridges-Day-Forests (campaign title)-KWCI (GPI)-National parks-Oil palm (plants)-Outdoors-Trees-Tropical rainforestsShoot:Small Scale Oil Palm Plantations in CameroonOil palm plantations in Cameroon cover a total of 60,000 ha, but in 2011 the government received applications for the opening of more than 1,000,000 ha of new plantations. As most of the land available currently is natural forest, oil palm expansion is becoming a major threat to Cameroon’s as well as the rest of Congo Basin's rainforest. The farmers in some villages in Cameroon don't believe in industrial scale palm oil production and have started to run small scale plantations with the objective of providing palm oil to local markets. More and more oil palm farmers avoid selling their oil palm fruits to PAMOL (the big state owned company in Mundemba) and prefer sell it to local artisanal mills.
