I STAYED 3 MONTHS INSIDE THE RAINFOREST OF MAMFE. WHAT I SAW MADE ME RESIGN. In 2012, I worked as a Project Evaluation Officer with a Geospatial Technology Group in Mamfe. My job was simple: Trek kilometers every single day inside the rainforest, identifying and marking different tree species that were ready for exploitation. I was there to MONITOR and EVALUATE if companies were truly implementing SUSTAINABLE forest exploitation. For 3 months, the forest was my office. No network. No good road. Just us, the GPS, and giant trees that have lived for 300 years. But what I saw broke me. What was written on paper as "sustainable exploitation" was MASS DESTRUCTION on the ground. There was NO selective cutting. They cut everything. Young trees, old trees, protected species. They left deep wounds in the forest and no tree to replace what they took. Bulldozers pulled down everything in their way. I realized we were not exploiting the forest, we were killing it. We were erasing the future of our children for quick timber money. A forest that took 500 years to grow can be destroyed in 5 days if we don't practice selective cutting. What is selective cutting? It means you only harvest mature trees, you leave the young ones to grow, you protect rare species, and you allow the forest to regenerate. You take one, you plant two. But what I saw was: Take everything and leave nothing. That is why I resigned. My conscience could not take it. I could not be part of a report that says "sustainable" when my eyes saw destruction. 12 years later, the effects are visible. Climate change, unpredictable rainfall,rivers drying up. If we must exploit, let us exploit with sense. Our forest is not our inheritance from our parents, it is a loan from our children. Have you ever been to our rainforests in Amazon,Congo Basin,Indonesia,Malaysia etc? What did you see? #SaveOurForest #Amazonrainforest #CameroonRainforest #SustainableForestry #ClimateAction