Blogposts tagged 'Cameroon'

Illegal timber imports into Europe: what we are doing to stop this trade

Posted by admin - 23 November 2005 at 8:00am - 0 Comments

Protesters dressed as gorillas blockade a shipload of illegal rainforest timber entering the port of Livorno, Italy

As a major market for tropical hardwood, the European Union plays a key role in the international trade in illegal and destructively sourced timber. Yet, currently no laws in Europe allow authorities to seize shipments of illegally logged timber, nor hold importers and traders of illegal timber accountable. These traders remain free to profit from forest destruction.

Article tagged as: amazon, brazil, cameroon, EU, forests, illegal timber, italy, spain

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Vicwood-Thanry destroying Cameroon's ancient forests

Publication date: 21 March, 2007

Publication date: April 2002

Summary
The lowland rainforest of Cameroon forms part of Africa's stunning Forest of the Great Apes. One of the world's last remaining strongholdsof species such as lowland gorillas, chimpanzees and forest elephants, this forest supports countless species of plants and animals and is home to around 12 million forest-dependent people. But today their future is under threat, as illegal and destructive logging companies encroach deeper and deeper into this fragile forest.

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