{"id":235714,"date":"2026-06-08T17:32:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T15:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/cameroon\/cameroon-billions-lost-as-secret-financial-networks-fuel-forest-destruction-in-brazil-and-cameroon\/"},"modified":"2026-06-08T17:32:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T15:32:00","slug":"cameroon-billions-lost-as-secret-financial-networks-fuel-forest-destruction-in-brazil-and-cameroon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/cameroon\/cameroon-billions-lost-as-secret-financial-networks-fuel-forest-destruction-in-brazil-and-cameroon\/","title":{"rendered":"Cameroon: Billions Lost As Secret Financial Networks Fuel Forest Destruction in Brazil and Cameroon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">Srinagar, India \u2014 A new report has found that billions of dollars linked to illegal deforestation are flowing through global supply chains, with secrecy around land ownership and company records helping timber, soy, and beef products enter international markets unchecked.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"63\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/financialtransparency.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/EN-Financial-Secrets-of-the-Forests-26-May-2026.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">report<\/a>, <em>Financial Secrets of the Forests: How Secrecy Fuels Deforestation in Brazil and Cameroon<\/em>, was released by the Financial Transparency Coalition in partnership with the Center for Economics and Finance for Latin&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202606080389.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Cameroon\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/cameroon\/\">Cameroon<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Srinagar, India \u2014 A new report has found that billions of dollars linked to illegal deforestation are flowing through global supply chains, with secrecy around land ownership and company records helping timber, soy, and beef products enter international markets unchecked. The report, Financial Secrets of the Forests: How Secrecy Fuels Deforestation in Brazil and Cameroon, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":235715,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[376],"tags":[258,256,12854,5066,4698,377,15372,5063,6238,7570,7408,6533,257,6860,254],"class_list":["post-235714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cameroon","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-billions","tag-brazil","tag-cameroon","tag-cameroon-news","tag-destruction","tag-financial","tag-forest","tag-fuel","tag-lost","tag-networks","tag-news","tag-secret","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235714\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}