Oil Palm Nursery in Cameroon
09 November, 2012 
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Oil Palm Nursery in Cameroon 
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Coastal Rainforest in Cameroon
09 November, 2012 
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Coastal Rainforest in Cameroon 
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Coastal Rainforest in Cameroon
09 November, 2012 
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Coastal Rainforest in Cameroon 
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Herakles Farms Press Briefing in USA
19 February, 2013 
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Herakles Farms Press Briefing in USA 
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'No Palm Plantation' T-shirt in Cameroon
14 November, 2012 
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'No Palm Plantation' T-shirt in Cameroon 
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Oil Palm Nursery in Cameroon
09 November, 2012 
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Oil Palm Nursery in Cameroon 
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Coastal Rainforest in Cameroon
09 November, 2012 
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Coastal Rainforest in Cameroon 
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Herakles Farms Press Briefing in USA
19 February, 2013 
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Herakles Farms Press Briefing in USA 
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Herakles Farms Press Briefing in USA
19 February, 2013 
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Herakles Farms Press Briefing in USA 
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Herakles Farms Press Briefing in USA
19 February, 2013 
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Herakles Farms Press Briefing in USA 
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Herakles Farms Press Briefing in USA
19 February, 2013 
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Herakles Farms Press Briefing in USA 
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Herakles Farms Press Briefing in USA
19 February, 2013 
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Herakles Farms Press Briefing in USA 
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Herakles Farms Press Briefing in USA
19 February, 2013 
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Herakles Farms Press Briefing in USA 
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Nasako Besingi at Greenpeace USA
15 February, 2013 
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Nasako Besingi at Greenpeace USA 
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Nasako Besingi at Greenpeace USA
15 February, 2013 
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Nasako Besingi at Greenpeace USA 
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Palm Fruit in Cameroon
19 February, 2012 
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Palm Fruit in Cameroon 
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Mandrillus leucophaeu at Audobon Zoo
21 December, 2011 
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Mandrillus leucophaeu at Audobon Zoo 
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Mandrillus leucophaeu at Edinburgh Zoo
15 October, 2011 
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Mandrillus leucophaeu at Edinburgh Zoo 
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Herakles Farms Press Briefing (USA) (All Photographers) 

Herakles Farms Press Briefing (USA) (All Photographers) 

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02/19/2013 
Greenpeace International Campaigner Michelle Medeiros joined with Samuel Nguiffo of the Center for Environment and Development (CED), Moderator Brendan Schwartz of RELUFA, Nasako Bisingi, director of SEFE; and Dr. Joshua Linder, assistant professor of anthropology at James Madison University at a press briefing on the social and environmental impacts of the Herakles Farms palm oil development in the coastal rainforest of southwestern Cameroon.

In September 2009 the US firm Sithe Global Sustainable Oils Cameroon (SGSOC) signed a convention with the Cameroon government for clearing approximately 70,000 hectares in the southwest region of the country. The legality of this deal has been questioned. Soon after, the
project was sold to the US firm Herakles Capital Corp, a company with ties to the New York private equity giant Blackstone Herakles Farms, a company affiliated with Herakles Capital, has been developing and managing the project ever since.

Despite claims by the company that the local environment will be protected and the project will be a force for social good in the region, the proposed plantation has attracted fierce criticism and opposition from local residents and NGOs. One local NGO took SGSOC to court in 2011
for illegally clearing forest to create oil palm nurseries before completing an Environmental and Social Impact Assessment, or receiving a Certificate of Environmental Conformity from the Cameroonian government, as required by law. 
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