Cameroon: Palm Oil Giant Hands over Sacred Community Land for Reforestation Project

May 4, 2023 | Yannick Kenné, Mongabay
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Felled palm trees litter the ground at the entrance to Mbonjo, a town at the heart of Cameroun’s palm oil and rubber-producing region. There, in the area cleared by felling trees and setting up barricades, lies ancestral community graves. These relics in this Mbonjo palm tree grove, also in a high conservation value area, are on land now handed over to local communities after more than two years of negotiations by the NGO National Cameroon Water Communities (SYNAPARCAM) and traditional chiefdoms in Mbonjo and Souza with Socapalm.