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Discover how primates, locals of Cameroon’s Deng Deng National Park are exposed to zoonosis
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...
ERuDeF INSTALLS NEWLY APPOINTED STAFF
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...
End the Anglophone crisis in Cameroon
On the 24th of October 2020, 7 school children of Mother Francisca International Bilingual Academy, Kumba were killed by alleged militias fighting to restore the independence of Anglophone Cameroon. This brutal killing did not only signal a bad twist in the unfolding...
Cameroon’s Endemic Bannerman’s Turaco population in steady Decline
Cameroon prides itself as one of the countries in Africa with the highest number of bird species. With close to about 1000 bird species, Cameroon’s bird’s population has been facing an array of threats ranging from habitat loss to hunting and many more. One of the...
Why Cameroon’s Bakassi Mangroves need urgent conservation action
The Bakassi mangroves are located in the Rio Del Rey Estuary. The area is a trans-boundary site between Cameroon and Nigeria. The mangroves constitute half of the total 200,000 ha of mangrove forest ecosystems in Cameroon. These mangroves are considered the most...
ERuDeF mourns victims of Kumba massacre, institutes Black Friday
The Environment and Rural Development Foundation dedicated Friday 30th October, 2020 to 7 school children that were brutally murdered on Saturday 24 October 2020 at Mother Francisca International Bilingual Academy, Kumba, Cameroon by armed men. “Black Friday for...
Why Tchabal Mabo needs urgent conservation action
The Adamawa Plateau named after Modibbo Adama, the founder of a Fulani emirate, is 1100m in altitude. There are also clearly defined mountains with summits over 1800m, the most elevated being occupied by the grassland vegetation (Sporobolus africanus) much...
ERuDeF Launches the Deng Deng-Belabo Conservation Corridor Project Steering Committee
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...
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...
ERuDeF to create the Lebialem Highlands Cooperative Union
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...