by erudef | Mar 15, 2021 | Blog
January 2nd 2021 was commemorated as World Wetlands Day. Commemorated under the theme “Wetlands and water”, wetlands are a very important ecosystem that has unfortunately continue to experience unprecedented depletion. The theme for this year underscores the...
by erudef | Mar 15, 2021 | Blog
“it is embarrassing to say, but I just have to reveal that, in my house we go for more than two days without bathing, sometimes we can’t even flush our toilets, my children are now perpetual late comers in school, because they trek very long distances to get little...
by erudef | Mar 10, 2021 | Blog
In the past women were seen as “the weaker sex”, they were socially, politically, economically and culturally inferior to their husbands. Subdue to remain under a man or boy in every domain. Just when the world saw the need for women’s equal right to participate in...
by erudef | Feb 28, 2021 | Blog, Mt Cameroon Threatened Trees Project
Within Cameroon, 15 of the country’s Critically Endangered trees are recorded from Mount Cameroon. It is a high priority for tree conservation, hosting more than 40 globally threatened tree species. Following the establishment of Mount Cameroon National Park (MCNP) in...
by erudef | Feb 7, 2021 | Blog, Mount Bamboutos initiative (MBI), Mt Bamboutos Initiative
The people of Bameghuie I, Bameghuie II and Bamelang in the Bangang chiefdom, one of the villages in the mount Bamboutos Landscape, situated in Batcham sub-division of the Bamboutos Division in the West Region of Cameroon, have embraced the Mount Bamboutos Initiative...
by erudef | Feb 7, 2021 | Blog, Cross River Gorilla Conservation Program
Primates in the Deng Deng National Park such as the endangered Gorillas and Chimpanzees are likely to suffer the effect of Zoonosis (transfer of diseases from humans to animals and vice versa). This is so due to the high encroachment into wildlife habitat. The life...
by erudef | Feb 5, 2021 | Blog, Newsletter
2020 was one of the most difficult years for the Environment and Rural Development Foundation (ERuDeF). The COVID-19 crisis that took the world by surprise and the Anglophone crisis that has been raging in the two Anglophone regions of Cameroon for 4 years now...
by erudef | Oct 14, 2020 | Blog
The Environment and Rural Development Foundation (ERuDeF) in its mission to save the Western Lowland Gorillas, other species and impact lives, recently reached another milestone, after the launching of the steering committee of the Deng Deng-Belabo project on Tuesday...
by erudef | Oct 2, 2020 | Blog
To advance the conservation program of the Lebialem Highlands, the Environment and Rural Development Foundation (ERuDeF) Plans to create a cooperative Union to help generate households’ income. Most communities in the area had cooperative societies created to help...
by erudef | Oct 2, 2020 | Blog
The African forest elephant (Loxodontaafricanacyclotis) has been widely hunted for its tusks and more recently for its meat, threatening its future survival. The population of African forest elephant has fallen by over 30% in the last seven (7) years largely due to...