Fwd: PYGMY LEADER TO VISIT LONDON

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> Date: Thu, 4 May 2000 17:52:59 +0100 
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> From: Iona Singleton <is at survival-international.org> 
> Subject: PYGMY LEADER TO VISIT LONDON 
>
> SURVIVAL NEWS RELEASE 
>
> 4 May 2000 
>
> PYGMY LEADER TO VISIT LONDON 
>
> Jacques Ngoun is one of the 'Pygmies' of Cameroun. His people, the Bagyeli,
> are in danger; their forest is being invaded, and the hunting and gathering
> on which they depend ruined, by logging companies and settlers. 
>
> On 23 May the World Bank will decide whether to continue to back a
> controversial oil pipeline from Chad to Cameroun. This pipeline will go
> through the Bagyeli's territory, and will not only destroy the crops and
> trees that they depend on, but also drive away the animals that they hunt.
> The pipeline plan is widely attacked for damaging the environment and local
> development and benefiting only the elite. Oil companies involved include
> Exxon and Chevron. Jacques says: 'The Pygmies were not informed; many only
> heard of the pipeline when they saw the machines.' 
>
> Jacques is Coordinator of CODEBABIK, an organisation formed by the
Bagyeli to
> fight for their survival. 
>
> He will be in London on 21 - 23 May as part of a tour to seek international
> support; with him is Didier Amougou of Planet Survey, a Camerounian
> organisation for the protection of the environment and of marginalised
> peoples. 
>
> Jacques and Didier will be meeting journalists and NGO representatives at
the
> Survival Office on Monday 22 May, at 2.30 pm. If you wish to attend or make
> an appointment at another time contact Virginia Luling or Sara Watson on 020
> 7242 1441. 
>
> "The logging companies destroy the forest...Our children have no future. We
> ask the government not to forget us, to do something so that our life today
> and tomorrow will not be as black as a night without stars." Jeanne
Silpen, of
> the Bagyeli. 
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> Iona Singleton 
> Campaigns Assistant 
> Survival 
> 11 - 15 Emerald Street 
> London  WC1N 3QL 
> Tel: +44 (0)20 7242 1441 
> Fax: +44 (0)20 7242 1771 


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