Cameroon Allows Logging in Forest That’s Home to Gorillas

  • Decree opens up Ebo Forest, once proposed as National Park
  • Conservationists say decision puts endangered primates at risk
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Cameroon defended a decision to allow logging in part of a forest that’s home to lowland gorillas and chimpanzees after environmental groups said the government may have signed a death sentence for the critically endangered primates.