EBOLOWA, Cameroon—Activists say a company controlled by a Chinese-state owned conglomerate in Cameroon is threatening the biodiversity in the country and endangering indigenous people.
Since 2011, Sud-Cameroun Hevea (Sudcam) has replaced almost 25,000 acres—the size of Paris—of dense tropical rainforest with a monoculture rubber plantation. Sudcam’s expansion project has approached the Dja Faunal Reserve, a UNESCO World Heritage site, and has displaced locals from their land and resources.