Greenpeace Belgium protests Cameroon logging

  • 19/05/1999

Greenpeace said yesterday that Belgian timber industry officials had agreed to meet them to discuss logging practices in the central Africa nation of Cameroon. About 20 Greenpeace activists on Monday temporarily blocked the unloading of a timber shipment from Cameroon to protest what it claims are environmentally damaging logging practices. "We want to protest against unsustainable logging practices in Cameroon," Filip Verbelen, bio-diversity campaigner for Greenpeace Belgium, told Reuters. "It's part of an international campaign that Greenpeace is holding. It's not just on Cameroon."