Deal #3214 Version #59364

The community claim the company used intimidation to acquire the plantation.

"The concession overlaps the customary territories of 33 villages, and thousands of indigenous people" "Communities’ access to the concession are nevertheless officially further restricted through the conversion from a logging to a conservation concession, e.g. hunting or cultivating. No socio-economic compensation contract or other form of agreement seems to have been signed between Jadora and local communities while they existed when it was still a logging concession"

"In villages situated around the Jadora/Safbois concession people told me that while they have received some short trainings on the objectives of the conservation concession to sequester carbon and on alternative agricultural practices (rotational monoculture), they have barely received any compensation in the first 7 years of Jadora concession’s existence despite being counted as beneficiaries in official evaluation reports."

The local chiefs state that the company promised to build clinics and schools, but this has not been delivered.