Chinese Company’s Cameroon Rubber Plant Poses Risk to Indigenous People and Ecosystem, Activists Say

Civil society activists listen to members of the indigenous community affected by the Sudcam project in south of Cameroon on Nov. 18, 2018. The uniformed man is Akoumba Akoumba, a traditional. By Amindeh Blaise Atabong/Special to The Epoch Times

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.