 Stories About: Cameroon
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Chad and Subtract
World Bank yanks corruption-tainted pipeline funding from Chad |
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12 Sep 2008 |
News |
| Posted at 12:36 PM on 12 Sep 2008 The World Bank has pulled funding from a 663-mile oil pipeline in Chad and Cameroon, having lost its gamble that the project would funnel oil wealth into poverty reduction instead of the pockets of corrupt officials. The bank made the loan in 2000, with the stipulation that 72 percent of oil royalties be spent on schools, hospitals, and roads. Covering the decision, Grist wrote that ... |
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| Topics: business, Cameroon, Chad, energy, news, oil, World Bank (all these topics) |
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You Be Gorillin'
Cameroon and Nigeria team up to protect endangered gorilla |
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05 Sep 2008 |
News |
| Posted at 3:48 PM on 05 Sep 2008 Cameroon and Nigeria will partner up to protect the world's most endangered gorilla under an agreement facilitated by the Wildlife Conservation Society. Only some 300 Cross River gorillas remain, all of which live only in those two Central African countries. Gorilla gorilla diehli is threatened by illegal logging, agricultural conversion of its habitat, and poaching for the bushmeat trad ... |
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| Topics: Cameroon, endangered species, habitat protection, news, Nigeria, wildlife (all these topics) |
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Aped Crusader
Sheri Speede, chimpanzee champion, answers readers' questions |
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14 Oct 2005 |
InterActivist |
| Sheri Speede, director of In Defense of Animals - Africa. Besides the chimpanzees, do you house any other primates (monkeys, prosimians)? -- Shirley McGreal, Summerville, S.C. Our residents are all chimpanzees. But gorillas and many species of monkeys are also being orphaned by the bushmeat trade. Two other important organizations, Pandrillus, which runs the Limbe Wildlife Center, and the Cameroon Wildlife ... |
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| Topics: animal welfare, Cameroon, InterActivist, interview (all these topics) |
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Need for Speede
Sheri Speede, chimpanzee champion, answers Grist's questions |
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10 Oct 2005 |
InterActivist |
| Sheri Speede. With what environmental organization are you affiliated? I'm a veterinarian who directs a conservation project in Cameroon, in west-central Africa -- In Defense of Animals - Africa. At the Sanaga-Yong Chimpanzee Rescue Center in the Mbargue forest of central Cameroon, we provide sanctuary to 48 chimpanzee orphans of the bushmeat trade, ranging in age from less than two years to over 40 years. W ... |
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| Topics: animal welfare, Cameroon, InterActivist, interview (all these topics) |
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The Congo Line
Congo Basin loggers work toward responsible forest management |
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28 Feb 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| The Congo Line Congo Basin loggers work toward responsible forest management Several logging companies in southeastern Cameroon have joined an initiative conservationists say could help save the rainforests of the Congo Basin, the second largest area of tropical rainforests in the world. The African logging firms are working toward independent certification as responsible foresters, restricting ... |
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| Topics: Cameroon, logging, news, rainforests, World Wildlife Fund (all these topics) |
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Camarooned
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18 Jun 2003 |
Daily Grist |
| Camarooned By the end of this year, hundreds of thousands of barrels of crude oil will flow through pipelines in Chad and Cameroon, bringing about $2.5 billion and $500 million to the two countries, respectively. But critics say those profits won't help the region's poorest and neediest, even though the project's major players -- an ExxonMobil-led oi ... |
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| Topics: business, Cameroon, Chad, commercial and industry organizations, United States, wilderness, World Bank (all these topics) |
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