ERuDeF Agro-foresters Use Smartphones To Collect Data

ERuDeF agro-foresters have begun using Smartphones to collect field data. The agro-foresters had earlier on received training on this new monitoring and evaluation technique from Ben Addlestone, John Munsell and Andrew Zacharias from Trees for Future USA when they...

ERuDeF Looses Wildlife Biologist

ERuDeF has lost one of her wildlife biologists. Miss Bernice Fien Muh, 30 years old, died in a car accident on January 7, 2015 on her back from Fundong after spending time with family. Bernice joined the ERuDeF family in 2008 to serve as coordinator of the Great Apes...

Forest Gardening Helps More Farmers Boost Yields

Fuelled by the turbulence of degraded soils and low agricultural production, more farmers in the North West, South West and West and Littoral Regions are turning to forest gardening, an upgrade of agro-forestry. A team made up of experts from ERuDeF has been helping...

Mt. Bamboutos Inhabitants Pledge Support To ABS In 2015

The people of Magha-Bamumbu have promised to support the Access and Benefit Sharing, ABS, project in 2015. The project that commenced in 2012 is now at its commercialization phase. They made this pledge on January 28, 2015 during a workshop that took place at the...

ERuDeF Institute Gets New Deputy Director

The ERuDeF Institute of Biodiversity and Non-profit Studies EIBiNS now has a new Deputy Director. The new Deputy Director, Mr. Samuel Ngueping holds a BSc. in Botany and Plant Physiology from University of Buea and a MSc. in Protected Area Management from the...

Bangang Community Benefits From Man & Nature/ERuDeF Largesse

The people of Bangang have benefited from the largesse of French charity organization Man and Nature through ERuDeF’s Net Positive impact (NPI) project. The coordinator of EruDeFs’ livelihood program recently handed the consignment of beehives and piglets...

Bangang Embraces Tofala Hill Wildlife Sanctuary

The Fon of Bangang and his people have pledged to embrace the just-created Tofala Hill Wildlife Sanctuary in Lebialem Division in the South West Region. Bangang is one of the communities bordering the Tofala Hill Wildlife Sanctuary that was created by Prime...

Trainee’s Encounter with Chimpanzees in Tofala

The notion that I was to camp in the forest close to a week made me sick when I went through the ERuDeF Institute of Biodiversity and Non-profit studies (EIBiNS) field calendar and discovered that I was to embark on a one week field trip on the insitu Conservation of...

A Fantastic Two Week Gorilla and Chimpanzee Conservation Trip

My two week gorilla and chimpanzee conservation trip with ERuDeF Institute in Cameroon has been fantastic. Fantastic because I was able to spend time in the rainforest tracking these sadly rare animals, but also fantastic for the way the team gives you the opportunity...