Environmentalists Prefer Cameroon to Remain Undeveloped Nature Preserve
In opposing the establishment of the Herakles Farms oil palm plantation in the South West Region of Cameroon, the World Wildlife Fund for Nature, Greenpeace and other environment protection NGO’s are blocking access to healthcare and education in one of the poorest countries in the world.
It is an interesting phenomenon that every time a big development project is announced in Cameroon or anywhere in Africa, a large phalanx of environmental movements rears its collective head and starts protesting about the dangers such a project would pose to the environment. Their primary concerns are in the following descending order: the forests, the animals, and at the tail end, the local populations.
These organizations, headquartered in glass skyscrapers in countries where forests were decimated decades ago, where large bodies of water are declared unfit for drinking and where the rest of the land is occupied by large industrial farms, seem determined to keep the rest of the developing world, particularly Africa, in such a state of primal nature that its inhabitants might as well live in trees and hunt for their food.
The World Wildlife Fund for nature, Greenpeace and other NGO’s are opposing a project by Herakles Farms in Cameroon and have filed a formal complaint against the project. They are opposing any cutting of trees in these areas.
The questions that come to mind are whether we can sacrifice human lives in order to preserve a few trees?
How have these trees made the lives of the indigenes better?
How is cutting of a few trees going to negatively affect the lives of the indigenes?
What forms of development or compensation are the NGO’s proposing to offset the loss emanating from the Herakles project?
What have these NGOs and their local affiliates done about the environmental pollution caused by the Western-owned factories in our cities?
Finally, of what good are trees if everyone is dead?
Herakles Farms/SGSOC is developing a 70,000 ha oil palm plantation and mill in Cameroon. The earmarked area for the plantation is located in a biodiversity hotspot and is covered by species-rich canopy forest. The area is also surrounded by nationally protected forest. Clearing of these areas can disrupt the ecological landscape and migration routes of protected species and subspecies. It can result in loss of water resources and subsistence farming lands of local communities.
But these NGO’s are not proposing any alternative form of development for this impoverished populations; they have not put forth any compensatory plan for the indigenes. They are not addressing the healthcare crisis, the falling GDP or rising morbidity and mortality rates for children and women.
There are no plans for building of roads, schools or providing water supply. They seem to have but one interest and one interest alone: preserving the trees at the expense of human suffering. The pain and suffering of the indigenes is such a major concern
Herakles Farms is known for developing environmentally and socially responsible projects that result in economic development and shared value in some of the least-developed African countries. Herakles Farms is partnered with the nonprofit, All for Africa, which funds projects focused on agriculture, clean water, community health, education, energy, environmental impact, micro-financing and skills training/livelihood creation.
The Herakles Farms project is sited in the Cameroonian rain forest area of the Ndian Division. This project involves cutting of trees to create roads, vast plantations, homes and supporting structures. The development will employ over 10,000 people, build roads, create schools, provide potable water supply, provide training for local farmers, microfinance and healthcare centers and community health development for employees and reduce poverty levels in the population.
This plantation is built in one of the most remote areas on the globe, with roads being nonexistent, absence of potable water supply, electricity, telephones, computers, cars, schools, libraries, shopping centers and amusement parks. More than half of the population is without any formal class room education. Only 47% percent of the population has completed 7years of elementary School and less than 5% have any form of secondary education.
There are no major hospitals in the area and the few healthcare facilities are without adequate equipment and resources. The ratio of doctors is 0.19/1000 people. Most deliveries are done by traditional birth attendants. There are no ambulances in these areas for emergency transport of patients to the hospital. Sometimes the closest hospital is more than a hundred miles away, which, given the absence of motorable roads, might as well be on the other side of the moon.
The health care system is still extremely primitive with no healthcare insurance, as is the case in most of the country, large areas with no medical doctors and low rates of immunization of the local population. There has been a recent outbreak of cholera in Cameroon of epidemic proportions Thirty years ago life expectancy was at 60years however today is between 48-54 years, with one of the
Sign the petition on this link or send corrections please: http://www.change.org/petitions/more-opportunities-for-cameroon-support-the-herakles-farms-sustainable-project
Quoi de plus noble dans la vie que d’aimer, d’adorer et de servir le Seigneur des Seigneurs, le Roi de Gloire, le Prince de paix, celui qui n’a ni commencement ni fin, le Fils du Dieu vivant : Jésus-Christ
if this project is coming to promote development in this area it will be a geat archievement to the masses not only to come and destroy the forest of which its the only livelihood of the pop
Charles Metouck
D’après les sources judiciaires, Charles Metouck a été arreté alors qu’il s’était introduit frauduleusement dans son ancien bureau.
Charles Metouck est en garde à vue depuis lundi soir dans les locaux de la division régionale de la police judiciaire du Sud Ouest.
Cette garde à vue concerne également une demi dizaine de ces anciens collaborateurs de la SONARA.
D’après des sources autorisées, l’ancien Directeur général de la Sonara s’est retrouvé dans son ancien bureau, en l’absence de son sucesseur et sans l’autorisation de ce dernier.
Il aurait signé des documents avant de procéder à la destruction d’autres documents. C’est le bruit d’un broyeur qui aurait attiré l’attention des services de sécurité.
Jusqu’à la semaine dernière, celui qui est encore le président du syndicat des industriels camerounais était le Directeur géneral de la Société camerounaise de raffineries.
Il a été remplacé au cours d’une session extraordinaire du conseil d’administration de l’entreprise.
Son successeur, Ibrahim Talba Malla, jusqu’ici Directeur Général de la CSPH et administrateur de la Sonara, a immédiatement été installé dans ses nouvelles fonctions par le ministre de l’energie et de l’eau, Basile Atangana Kouna. La passation de services a suivi le même jour.
caractérisée de certains joueurs en marge du match amical du 6 février dernier à Dar Es Salam contre la Tanzanie, la réaction des autorités sportives était très attendue. Adoum Garoua, le ministre des Sports, a plutôt répliqué par une posture paternaliste. Une contenance récurrente qui contribue à envenimer davantage l’ambiance délétère qui règne depuis environ deux ans dans la tanière des Lions.
Face aux cas d’indiscipline avérée constatés avant la rencontre amicale Tanzanie-Cameroun, marquée par une épidémie de forfaits plus ou moins diplomatiques et autres absences non justifiées médicalement (le Dr Boubakary Sidiki, responsable médical de l’équipe nationale, révélant que « certains certificats médicaux transmis par les médecins de clubs le sont pour des pathologies chroniques, c’est-à dire, des maux avec lesquels les joueurs évoluent régulièrement depuis des années, d’autres le sont par pure
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The Herakles Farms Project:
Environmentalists Prefer Cameroon to Remain Undeveloped Nature Preserve
In opposing the establishment of the Herakles Farms oil palm plantation in the South West Region of Cameroon, the World Wildlife Fund for Nature, Greenpeace and other environment protection NGO’s are blocking access to healthcare and education in one of the poorest countries in the world.
It is an interesting phenomenon that every time a big development project is announced in Cameroon or anywhere in Africa, a large phalanx of environmental movements rears its collective head and starts protesting about the dangers such a project would pose to the environment. Their primary concerns are in the following descending order: the forests, the animals, and at the tail end, the local populations.
These organizations, headquartered in glass skyscrapers in countries where forests were decimated decades ago, where large bodies of water are declared unfit for drinking and where the rest of the land is occupied by large industrial farms, seem determined to keep the rest of the developing world, particularly Africa, in such a state of primal nature that its inhabitants might as well live in trees and hunt for their food.
The World Wildlife Fund for nature, Greenpeace and other NGO’s are opposing a project by Herakles Farms in Cameroon and have filed a formal complaint against the project. They are opposing any cutting of trees in these areas.
The questions that come to mind are whether we can sacrifice human lives in order to preserve a few trees?
How have these trees made the lives of the indigenes better?
How is cutting of a few trees going to negatively affect the lives of the indigenes?
What forms of development or compensation are the NGO’s proposing to offset the loss emanating from the Herakles project?
What have these NGOs and their local affiliates done about the environmental pollution caused by the Western-owned factories in our cities?
Finally, of what good are trees if everyone is dead?
Herakles Farms/SGSOC is developing a 70,000 ha oil palm plantation and mill in Cameroon. The earmarked area for the plantation is located in a biodiversity hotspot and is covered by species-rich canopy forest. The area is also surrounded by nationally protected forest. Clearing of these areas can disrupt the ecological landscape and migration routes of protected species and subspecies. It can result in loss of water resources and subsistence farming lands of local communities.
But these NGO’s are not proposing any alternative form of development for this impoverished populations; they have not put forth any compensatory plan for the indigenes. They are not addressing the healthcare crisis, the falling GDP or rising morbidity and mortality rates for children and women.
There are no plans for building of roads, schools or providing water supply. They seem to have but one interest and one interest alone: preserving the trees at the expense of human suffering. The pain and suffering of the indigenes is such a major concern
Herakles Farms is known for developing environmentally and socially responsible projects that result in economic development and shared value in some of the least-developed African countries. Herakles Farms is partnered with the nonprofit, All for Africa, which funds projects focused on agriculture, clean water, community health, education, energy, environmental impact, micro-financing and skills training/livelihood creation.
The Herakles Farms project is sited in the Cameroonian rain forest area of the Ndian Division. This project involves cutting of trees to create roads, vast plantations, homes and supporting structures. The development will employ over 10,000 people, build roads, create schools, provide potable water supply, provide training for local farmers, microfinance and healthcare centers and community health development for employees and reduce poverty levels in the population.
This plantation is built in one of the most remote areas on the globe, with roads being nonexistent, absence of potable water supply, electricity, telephones, computers, cars, schools, libraries, shopping centers and amusement parks. More than half of the population is without any formal class room education. Only 47% percent of the population has completed 7years of elementary School and less than 5% have any form of secondary education.
There are no major hospitals in the area and the few healthcare facilities are without adequate equipment and resources. The ratio of doctors is 0.19/1000 people. Most deliveries are done by traditional birth attendants. There are no ambulances in these areas for emergency transport of patients to the hospital. Sometimes the closest hospital is more than a hundred miles away, which, given the absence of motorable roads, might as well be on the other side of the moon.
The health care system is still extremely primitive with no healthcare insurance, as is the case in most of the country, large areas with no medical doctors and low rates of immunization of the local population. There has been a recent outbreak of cholera in Cameroon of epidemic proportions Thirty years ago life expectancy was at 60years however today is between 48-54 years, with one of the
Sign the petition on this link or send corrections please: http://www.change.org/petitions/more-opportunities-for-cameroon-support-the-herakles-farms-sustainable-project
Quoi de plus noble dans la vie que d’aimer, d’adorer et de servir le Seigneur des Seigneurs, le Roi de Gloire, le Prince de paix, celui qui n’a ni commencement ni fin, le Fils du Dieu vivant : Jésus-Christ
if this project is coming to promote development in this area it will be a geat archievement to the masses not only to come and destroy the forest of which its the only livelihood of the pop
Contact
L’ex DG de la Sonara aux arrêts
Charles Metouck
D’après les sources judiciaires, Charles Metouck a été arreté alors qu’il s’était introduit frauduleusement dans son ancien bureau.
Charles Metouck est en garde à vue depuis lundi soir dans les locaux de la division régionale de la police judiciaire du Sud Ouest.
Cette garde à vue concerne également une demi dizaine de ces anciens collaborateurs de la SONARA.
D’après des sources autorisées, l’ancien Directeur général de la Sonara s’est retrouvé dans son ancien bureau, en l’absence de son sucesseur et sans l’autorisation de ce dernier.
Il aurait signé des documents avant de procéder à la destruction d’autres documents. C’est le bruit d’un broyeur qui aurait attiré l’attention des services de sécurité.
Jusqu’à la semaine dernière, celui qui est encore le président du syndicat des industriels camerounais était le Directeur géneral de la Société camerounaise de raffineries.
Il a été remplacé au cours d’une session extraordinaire du conseil d’administration de l’entreprise.
Son successeur, Ibrahim Talba Malla, jusqu’ici Directeur Général de la CSPH et administrateur de la Sonara, a immédiatement été installé dans ses nouvelles fonctions par le ministre de l’energie et de l’eau, Basile Atangana Kouna. La passation de services a suivi le même jour.
caractérisée de certains joueurs en marge du match amical du 6 février dernier à Dar Es Salam contre la Tanzanie, la réaction des autorités sportives était très attendue. Adoum Garoua, le ministre des Sports, a plutôt répliqué par une posture paternaliste. Une contenance récurrente qui contribue à envenimer davantage l’ambiance délétère qui règne depuis environ deux ans dans la tanière des Lions.
Face aux cas d’indiscipline avérée constatés avant la rencontre amicale Tanzanie-Cameroun, marquée par une épidémie de forfaits plus ou moins diplomatiques et autres absences non justifiées médicalement (le Dr Boubakary Sidiki, responsable médical de l’équipe nationale, révélant que « certains certificats médicaux transmis par les médecins de clubs le sont pour des pathologies chroniques, c’est-à dire, des maux avec lesquels les joueurs évoluent régulièrement depuis des années, d’autres le sont par pure