Oil Palm Nursery in Cameroon

Oil palm nursery in a Herakles Farm’s concession area. Herakles is pushing ahead with its plans for a huge palm oil plantation with complete disregard for Cameroonian law and the opposition of local people, who fear they will lose their farms and their livelihoods to the US-based corporation

Unique identifier: GP04BXW

Type: Image

Shoot date: 09/11/2012

Locations: Africa, Cameroon, Western Africa

Credit line: © Greenpeace / Alex Yallop

Latitude: 5°2'55"N

Longitude: 8°35'14"E

Ranking: ★★★★ (E)

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Forest Clearing and Forest Beauty in Cameroon

Aerial evidence from Greenpeace International shows how trees in the largely forested concession area have been cleared by SGSOC, a subsidiary of New-York based Herakles Farms, near the village of Talangaye.
The American-owned company continues to clear areas of natural forest in the South-West of Cameroon to establish a large-scale palm oil plantation despite growing local and international opposition and a heightened risk of social conflict over the project

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