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African Loggers Begin to See the Light in Forests

February 28, 2005

Cameroon - IN THE RAINFOREST OF SOUTHEASTERN CAMEROON - Standing in a clearing by a pile of recently felled tree trunks, Edmond Fouda says life as a woodcutter has changed in recent years.

Fouda's bosses are among several logging firms working to be certified as responsible managers of the forest in southeastern Cameroon, the sort of initiative conservationists say could help save the world's second biggest tropical forest region.

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