Cameroon: Fighting to Save Africa's Richest Rainforest  Monde
Kingsley Nfor interviews NASAKO BESINGI, director of
environmental NGO Struggle to Economize the Future.  YAOUNDE -
Protests against a controversial palm oil plantation in the
Korup National Park, Africa's oldest and richest rainforest in
terms of floral and faunal diversity, in Mundemba, southwest
Cameroon will continue despite the arrests and intimidation of
local environmental campaigners.  Nasako Besingi, the director
of the local NGO Struggle to Economize the Future, told IPS "we
won't stop until environmental justice is done."  The New York-
based agricultural company, Herakles Farms, has been accused of
grabbing a piece of this central African nation's national
forest as it goes ahead with a 73,000-hectare palm oil
plantation despite a lack of government authorisation - there
are claims that the 99-year lease agreement with the government
is illegal - and two court injunctions, and in the face of
significant community opposition.  The contest