A Cameroonian forestry professor and two World Wildlife Fund (WWF) staffers were killed on 11 February in Cameroon, West Africa, when their vehicle crashed at night into an abandoned logging truck that had broken down in the middle of the road. The dead are professor Doumbe Manga of the University of Yaoundé, Jos Beerlink of Belgium, who managed the WWF's sustainable forest program in the Congo Basin, and community forestry specialist Caroline Dubois of France.
The three were working to establish sustainable forestry programs and stem widespread illegal logging operations in Cameroon, Africa's largest producer of logs and a big exporter of valuable red mahogany.