by erudef | Oct 17, 2016 | News
The survival of endangered species and ecosystems depends on long-term participation and understanding of local populations (Oates, 1999). Due to the close relationship between cultural diversity and biodiversity, traditional knowledge systems should play an important...
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...
by erudef | Sep 27, 2016 | News
A Water Management Committee has been put in place in Menji, Chief Town of the Lebialem Division to ensure the proper maintenance and management of water schemes in this area. The Committee, which has as Chairman, Fogap Ivo was installed during an enlarged water...
by erudef | Sep 27, 2016 | News
Some farmers who implemented Agroforestery systems in their farms, in Boyo Division of North West Region Cameroon, have begun reaping some benefits. During a recent visit paid the Division by a team of experts from the Environment and Rural Development Foundation...
by erudef | Sep 27, 2016 | News
Inhabitants of the Mount Cameroon Borders and its peripheral communities say the agro-industrial company, Cameroon Development Corporation (CDC) has stopped parading the areas planted with threatened trees in the Bakingili Community Forest. This is thanks to the...
by erudef | Sep 27, 2016 | News
Nine new executive members have been elected to revamp the Lewoh Women Cooperative Society (LeWoCoS), which has been dormant for the last five years. The elections, organised by the Environment and Rural Development Foundation (ERuDeF) in Lewoh, August 2016, came up...
