Deal #8685

Kabo, Bomassa-Boncoin and Leme villages.

The logging roads allowed for more endangered animals to be poached. The company's vehicles were used for wildlife hunting, poaching and ivory trafficking. But things really started to go wrong for CIB at the end of 2009, when the company was forced to fire a reported 775 workers in the Kabo concession, because of growing economic losses (other sources put the number of job losses at less than 700). It is not known what will become of these workers or their families once the redundancy payments have been spent; one concern would be that, following the typical course of logging operations throughout the tropics, having brought hundreds of workers into the forest for their unsustainable operations, they are basically abandoned there and have little other option but to clear forest for farmland and hunt wildlife in order to feed themselves.

The company must pay 200FCFA per cubic meter to the Community Development Fund.