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2013-04-25 07:54:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Inter Press Service: - Bordered by a rubber plantation in the west, a forestry plantation in the east and a palm oil farm in the south, the 18 local communities that live in Ocean Division, southern Cameroon, have had an uphill struggle for the rights to their land. In 2008, the government leased much of their forestland, about 47,000 hectares, to international company United Forest Cameroon. But only through a sustained campaign and involvement by the Rights and Resources Initiative (RRI), a global coalition of...
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