Nearly 7,000 hectares of Cameroonian forests cleared by CamVert for oil palm expansion

In collaboration with Milieudefensie and Centre pour l’Environnement et le Développement (CED) Cameroon, AidEnvironment assessed the clearing of 6,890 hectares of dense moist forest in Océan, Campo (Cameroon) between 2020 and 2025, linked to palm oil company CamVert. About 70% (4,842 ha) of the cleared area can be classified as forest under the EUDR.

Impacts of the CamVert project on local communities and indigenous peoples in the concession have been widely documented and cumulated in a formal complaint by the Forest Peoples Programme (FPP) at the UN CERD Committee in March 2023.

Buyers of CamVert are unlikely to achieve negligible risk in their due diligence efforts under the EUDR when buying palm oil products that enter the EU from January 2026. One of the nearest industrial palm oil mills is Socfin’s Socapalm, distanced 68 km from the CamVert oil palm plantation. Socapalm has denied any current or future commercial relationship with CamVert.

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