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Agroforestry Farming System Gaining Ground In Mount Cameroon Area
Farmers around the Mount Cameroon National Park who undertook training on agroforestry techniques at the Mt. Cameroon area have begun raising nurseries of agroforestry tree species that will be transplanted into their farms to boost yields. This...
ERuDeF And MoBECoS Partner In Conservation Social Enterprise Development
The Mount Bamboutos Echinops Cooperative Society (MoBECoS) and the Environment and Rural Development Foundation (ERuDeF) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) in the implementation of the Community Conservation Social Enterprise...
Upper Bayang Communities Trained To Monitor Illegal Activities In Tofala-Mone
Some seven Upper Bayang communities within the Tofala-Mone Rainforest Corridor including the Bakumba, Ayukaba, Chinda, Egbemo, Kendem, Bokwa, and Etoko communities have been trained on how to use the Global Forest Watch Application (Forest...
Chiefs, Elites Join Voices To Call For Mak-Betchou Gazettement
Traditional rulers and elites in the Lebialem Division, Southwest Cameroon, have added their voices to national and international ‘calls’ on the Cameroon Government to precipitate the gazetting process of the proposed Mak-Betchou Wildlife...
‘ERuDeF’s Community Forest Project Has Prospects Of Changing Lives In Rural Areas’
The World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF)’s Coordinator in Kenya, Peter Minang, has revealed that the Environment and Rural Development Foundation (ERuDeF)’s work on community forests around the South West Region of Cameroon is of great importance...
Community Engagement for the Conservation of Cross Rivers Gorillas and Nigeria Cameroon Chimpanzees in the Newly Created Tofala Hills Wildlife Sanctuary
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...
Sustainable Management of Threatened Tree-Seedlings Planted at the Mt. Cameroon National Park (MCNP) and Peripheries.
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...
Conserving Biodiversity Population Through Increased Awareness of Anthropogenic Activities in the Tofala Hill Wildlife Sanctuary, South West Cameroon
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,...
Planting Of 4.5 Million Fruit Trees To Salvage Forty-One Peasant Villages Adjacent To Mt. Cameroon National Park Deprived Of Livelihood.
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...
Achieving Biodiversity Conservation by Building Forests Management Capacities of Communities in the Tofala-Mone Wildlife Corridor, South West Cameroon
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,...