THE FOREST

During my recent travels in Africa, I was inspired by the beauty and fragility of the Cameroonian rainforest, where magnificent trees still reign.

This journey to the heart of the plant world, the source of my inspiration, brought me back to my South American roots and the lush Amazonia.

Flooded during the rainy season by the Nyong River's overflowing waters, "The Submerged Forest" in the Ebogo Nature Reserve moved me deeply. After a canoe trip, I felt an intense emotion at the moment of paying tribute to his majesty, the "Kosipo of Ebogo", a 1200-year-old tree, whose crown reaches the sky 85 m above our dizzy heads.

In the northwest, continuing my initiatory journey into the virgin forest, to the Ekom Nkam Falls, a powerful and strangely beautiful place where unspoiled nature reigns supreme, gave me the hope and strength of the highland warriors.

The second largest forest massif in Africa, located in the heart of the Congo Basin, the Cameroonian forest, is in danger like all forests in the world .

On the road leading to the coasts and ports, hundreds of heavy trucks transported immense trees of precious wood, felled, numbered, reddened by the laterite of their sacred forests, dragged from within their sanctuaries. Years of life, centuries of history and biodiversity torn from a land of light.