Engelstalige publicatie over illegale houtkap door houtbedrijf CIBEC in Kameroen
Auteur: Greenpeace, CED
Omschrijving: In 2001 and 2002, the Cameroon logging company CIBEC, controlled by Dutch businessman Jacco Ravenhorst, carried out a large scale illegal logging operation in the rainforest of south-west Cameroon. CIBEC’s logging operations caused economic losses to the Cameroon government and local communities and created social conflicts and forest destruction.
CED (Centre pour l’Environnement et le Developpement) and Greenpeace visited the area logged by CIBEC in December 2002.
The Netherlands is the main market for CIBEC timber; it is thus very likely that CIBEC’s illegal timber has been laundered into the Netherlands’ legal timber trade. One of the main timber species that CIBEC exports to the Netherlands is azobé, a very durable hardwood, popular in the Netherlands and throughout Europe for marine constructions and railroad ties. In the Netherlands, timber trader Hupkes is marketing CIBEC timber on the Dutch and European market. In the past years, Greenpeace already criticised Hupkes for trading timber from Hazim, a Cameroon company involved in large-scale illegal logging, and from OTC, a Liberian company linked to illegal arms trafficking.
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