by erudef | Oct 17, 2016 | News
Over 20000 threatened trees planted at the Mount Cameroon National Park by the Environment and Rural Development Foundation are increasingly victimised by anthropogenic threats like bush fire, perennial weeds, and pastes that they may become extinct within the next...
by erudef | Oct 17, 2016 | News
Over 250,000 people (70% of whom are peasant farmers) live around protected areas, South West of Cameroon (MINFOF, 2013). These farmers destroy species habitats, transforming them into agricultural farmlands. They carryout illegal logging, hunting and trafficking of...
by erudef | Oct 17, 2016 | News
The creation of the Mt. Cameroon National Park to conserve its biodiversity has lead to legal restrictions to access farm land by the mountainous villages adjacent and surrounding the mountain. The villages that thrive on subsistence agriculture and hunting, and their...
by erudef | Oct 17, 2016 | News
The Tofala-Mone east corridor in South West Cameroon constitutes a gamut of biodiversity amongst which are primates such as the Nigerian-Cameroon Chimpanzees and the cross river gorillas. These wildlife species are under threat due to poaching, habitat lost and...
by erudef | Oct 17, 2016 | News
The endangered species such as chimpanzees, leopards, cats, bushbabies,elephants,special birds and plants are at the edge of extinction due to agricultural activities of communities adjacent to this proposed wildlife sanctuary (ERuDeF, 2011). The adjacent communities...