Permalink: https://media.greenpeace.org/archive/Mana-River-in-Cameroon-27MDHUSRV9.htmlConceptually similarMana River in CameroonGP11FJCompleted★★★★★★Mana River in CameroonGP11FKCompleted★★★★★★Korup National Park in CameroonGP11G2Completed★★★★PAMOL Plantation in CameroonGP11FMCompleted★★★★Korup National Park in CameroonGP11G1Completed★★★★Palm Oil Farm in CameroonGP11FLCompleted★★★★River in CameroonGP11EACompleted★★★★Orume Robinson in CameroonGP11H0Completed★★★★PAMOL Palm Oil Farm in CameroonGP11H4Completed★★★★View AllGP11FIMana River in CameroonThe Mana river forms a natural border at the end of Korup National Park and provides a convenient way to transport palm oil to the port of Douala. Palm oil plantations are being expanded along the course of the river threatening the areas in this photo and even within the territory of the park itself.Locations:Africa-Cameroon-Mana RiverDate:20 Feb, 2012Credit:© Jan-Joseph Stok / GreenpeaceMaximum size:5616px X 3744pxKeywords:Beauty-Day-Deforestation-Forests (campaign title)-KWCI (GPI)-National parks-Nature-Outdoors-Palm oil (product)-Reflections-Rivers-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.
