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The role of community rangers as citizen Scientists in Research and Conservation of Gorillas and Chimpanzees in the Lebialem highlands
The use of robust ecological data to make evidence-based management decisions for highly threatened species is often limited by data availability, and local ecological knowledge (LEK). The participation of communities living in high conservation value areas is...
REDD +, an incentive for restoration
The fight against climate change is one of the major challenges of our time. Forests play a fundamental role in climate change mitigation- by removing CO2 from the atmosphere and storing it in biomass and soils. This also means that when forests are cleared or...
Meet the Beneficiaries of the Lobeke Project
By Shuimo Trust The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic brought overbearing effects on especially communities adjacent to protected areas. Given that communities around Cameroon’s protected areas depend heavily on tourism, the outbreak of COVID-19 means that the...
Protecting great Apes, forest elephants, and other large mammals in Eastern Cameroon:ERuDeF calls for Financial and technical support
The International Union for Conservation of Nature classifies the Western lowland gorillas as critically endangered, Central chimpanzees as Endangered and forest elephants as Vulnerable due to their declining population, a trend that is not expected to cease in the...
Discover how ERuDef is changing the lives of smallholder farmers in Western Cameroon through Forest Garden
The Western Cameroon Highlands are characterised by high relief, cool temperatures, heavy rainfall and savanna vegetation. These highlands constitute several mountains amongst which are the Mbapit-Nkogham, Bamboutos and Nlonako-Muanenguba Mountains. Mt. Bamboutos and...
The road to the gazettement of the Deng Deng National Park
Nja Beltin Tekuh, The Cameroon Oil Transportation Company (COTCO) commissioned in 1998 an environmental impact survey of a proposed oil pipeline route from Chad to Cameroon. The results of the survey revealed that an area along the pipeline in eastern Cameroon known...
Why Mbapit-Nkogham Mountains need urgent restoration
By Muluh Quinivette The Western High Plateau of Cameroon is made of numerous mountains amongst which are the Mbapit and the Nkogham mountains. The Mbapit-Nkolgam Mts is found in the Western High Plateau of Cameroon. The Western High Plateau was once heavily forested....
New bird species Discovered in the Tofala Hills Wildlife Sanctuary
By Shuimo Trust. A new species of bird has been discovered in the Tofala Hills Wildlife Sanctuary in the Lebialem Highlands, Western Cameroon, known as the White-crested hornbill (Horizocerus albocristatus). This discovery is thanks to the ongoing...
ERuDeF Conducts Ground Truthing in KEPOL Community Forest
Ground truthing works recently conducted by ERuDeF in the KEPOL Community Forest situated in the Deng Deng National Park-Belabo Council Forest Conservation Corridor has revealed that nine land use types are found in the community forest. These land use include primary...
Climate change: Technology boosts efforts to curb tree loss in Amazon
Technology can help indigenous communities to significantly curb deforestation, according to a new study. Indigenous people living in the Peruvian Amazon were equipped by conservation groups with satellite data and smartphones. They were able to reduce tree losses by...
Repairing Human Damages on our Ecosystem
Wendell Berry, a naturalist and writer once said, “the earth is the only thing we have in common”, so why would we want to destroy the only thing which bonds the human race? Our world was created naturally with so much riches, with enough for both humans and species...