Palm Watch - Africa

New media strategies for human rights, social justice and environmental protection across the Congo Basin.

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(via Palm oil development facilitates illegal logging)

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Map: These are the cities that climate change will hit first

(Leonard Bernstein and Gene Thorp/The Washington Post)

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Most of the first-hit cities are in Africa, adding to urgency of cutting emissions in "developed" countries and protecting Congo Basin rainforest

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Cameroonian journalist honored for her reporting on the controversial Herakles Farms project. She received her prize just as the company suspended its operations.

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Herakles Farms, the US company developing a controversial 73,000 hectare palm oil plantation in Cameroon, has temporarily suspended its operations. Community activists say it's too soon to celebrate, but it's clear that widespread community and international opposition to the project is having an impact. 

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Nouveau : L’atlas des sols africains

Les sols des forêts tropicales humides ne sont pas naturellement fertiles mais requièrent l’apport constant en matières organiques du couvert végétal naturel. La déforestation brise ce cycle.