Cameroon Approves Logging Concession that Will Destroy Ebo Forest Gorilla Habitat

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Concession Will Be a Blow for Many Endangered Primates and to Forthcoming Red Colobus Action Plan.

A logging concession in Ebo Forest in Cameroon’s Littoral region has been approved by the country’s government, even though the forest is critical habitat for many species of endangered primates, including gorillas, chimpanzees and red colobus monkeys. A decree confirming the concession was issued Wednesday, July 22. The decree is in direct opposition to an international agreement to protect gorillas and their habitats that the Cameroonian government signed on July 20.

Cameroon Approves Logging Concession that Will Destroy Ebo Forest Gorilla Habitat - Global Wildlife Conservation

 

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Cameroon Approves To Destroy Ebo Forest Gorilla Habitat - ValueWalk

 

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Here are things that different friends of mine said about this article, and I strongly agree with them and empathize with their thoughts, feelings and pain.

"What can we do about this? I’m sick to death of hearing bad news and being helpless to change anything."

"I am sick with anger and sadness. Feeling so helpless. Can’t anything be done to help these majestic sentient beings?"

"I feel you so much. Every time one of these articles comes up it feels like a little more of my soul (for lack of a better word) is chipped away; more of my hope is lost. Conserving these treasures (let alone enabling them to grow and regenerate) takes so much time, work, and investment—like a bird building a nest, filling it with eggs, and raising them to adulthood—while for the people causing and enabling the damage it’s as simple as stepping on that nest and crushing everything underfoot. Words do not exist for how angry and pained this makes me."

I can also say that a piece of my own soul is chipped away every time I come across such articles, but it is pivotal that we raise awareness for these issues and that they get out in the open.

 

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Here is another relevant article.

"For tool-wielding chimps of Ebo Forest, logging plan is a ‘death sentence

Fifteen years ago, Ekwoge Abwe was trekking through Ebo Forest in Cameroon when he heard something cracking in the distance. He scanned the forest, searching for the source of the sound.

“One of my local assistants said, ‘Those are chimpanzees cracking nuts,’” Abwe, a biologist, postdoctoral fellow at San Diego Zoo Global and manager of the Ebo Forest Research Project, told Mongabay. “I said, ‘How do you know that?’”

For tool-wielding chimps of Ebo Forest, logging plan is a ‘death sentence’

 

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Here is another relevant article.

"For tool-wielding chimps of Ebo Forest, logging plan is a ‘death sentence

Fifteen years ago, Ekwoge Abwe was trekking through Ebo Forest in Cameroon when he heard something cracking in the distance. He scanned the forest, searching for the source of the sound.

“One of my local assistants said, ‘Those are chimpanzees cracking nuts,’” Abwe, a biologist, postdoctoral fellow at San Diego Zoo Global and manager of the Ebo Forest Research Project, told Mongabay. “I said, ‘How do you know that?’”

For tool-wielding chimps of Ebo Forest, logging plan is a ‘death sentence’

Here is what a friend of mine had to say about this article;

"I fear for the wildlife. If Jeff Bezos of Amazon and other mega billionaires had a sense of reality they’d help protect nature. As is often the case, economics is driving habitat destruction. Demand for wood increases with per capita consumption and human population growth. A quote from the article: For a new national park to be established, a big donor has to be behind it,” Morgan said. “The government itself rarely of its own accord instigates a new protected area, because that means lots of money and lots of development, and the government struggles to do that with all its different other responsibilities in the country.”