Cameroon: Fallout of HIPC-I: France Offers 25 Million Dollars for Forest Conservation

29 June 2006

France and Cameroon have signed the first-ever Central African debt for nature swap. The agreement signed recently on behalf of Cameroon by Prime Minister, Ephraim Inoni, and Bridget Girardin, French Minister Delegate for Cooperation and Development, will see the investment of 25 million dollars over the next five years to protect part of the world's second largest tropical forest.

This information is contained in a press release dispatched to The Post by the Central African Sub-Regional Communication Service of the World Wildlife Fund, WWF.

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