Companies are violating the rights of Africans through logging

In West and Central Africa, companies are seizing forests for logging. In doing so, they are violating the rights of indigenous communities. Local and Western governments must help to address this issue.

Together with other civil society organizations, we are urging governments to support indigenous communities in protecting their forests.

• Read our letter to the governments of Liberia, Cameroon, and Gabon.
• Read our letter to the governments of the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Norway, Germany, and the United States, as well as the Central African Forest Initiative.

Read the document we sent along with the letters (in English).

Click here to read the document in French.

Photo above: Two men standing on a felled tree in the Oungé River in Cameroon. © Micha Patault

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