GDA 2025 ANNUAL REPORT ON THE SHELVES

Rounding off a decade and more of activities advocating forest protection in the Congo Basin

It is the sixth in the series of reports highlighting the avowed objectives of the Green Development Advocates’ advocacy drive to appeal for responsible engagement by all stakeholders in the Congo Basin to protect the forests of that regional watershed.

Though the second largest forest mass in the world, the Congo Basin is the most vulnerable of the forest regions targeted by multinational companies in the extraction of the natural resources both above and below its soils.

It is about a decade and more that the GDA has employed its human and material resource potentials to clamour for the respect of the rights of the traditional custodians of these forests who are the indigenous peoples and local communities living within, across the centuries.

The GDA 2025 Annual report https://www.gdacameroon.org/files/Documents/2025%20GDA%20Annual%20Report.pdf is a recount of the activities engaged in through advocacy, capacity building and material support to the IPLCs known to be the soft spots through which multinational companies and their accolytes penetrate in the exploitation of the resources within resulting in forest degradation and its attendant effects: loss of forest cover, degrading soils, pollution, loss of biodiversity and much more as could be subsumed in the general notion of environmental degradation as the document portends to show.