Our forests help stabilise the climate, and are home to a diversity of plants and animals. It is also a source of livelihood for people depending on it to live. But the forest is under threat - large areas are being degraded due in large part to unsustainable industrial activities.
With Africa been home to the world’s second largest rainforest, the need to protect it remains more urgent than ever. We need to build a movement of people calling for forest protection, species survival and taking action against climate change.
Yaoundé, 9 August – On the occasion of the celebration of the International Day of Indigenous People, Greenpeace Africa joins the indigenous people of Cameroon in demanding that companies responsible…
Following the meeting last July 31 between traditional leaders from the area around the UNESCO World Heritage Site Salonga National Park and the EU delegation in Kinshasa, where the oil…
March 2019, almost a year after the indigenous people from Lokolama village in the Equateur province filed their application for a forest concession, I went back there to celebrate with…
