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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...
Managing water resources through, conservation and restoration of riparian forests
According to the 2019 UN report, 2 billion people around the world still lack access to safe water and sanitation. UNICEF also reports that at least 600 children die everyday from water related diseases such as diarrhea caused by poor water, sanitation and hygiene...
The illegal wildlife trade: Why Elephants around the Deng Deng National Park are in Trouble
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...
Acacia tree, Secret To Improved Soil Fertility And Optimum Production
“I will never use any chemicals fertilizer on my farm again.” Says Kedni Joseph, a Forest gardens farmer in Bana village, West Region of Cameroon. With the introduction of the Forest Gardens Program by ERuDeF, farmers in Cameroon’s Western High Plateau and...
SAVING WILDLIFE IN DENG DENG NATIONAL PARK-DJA CORRIDOR: AN ENGAGING TASK FOR ERuDeF
Mere Dreams are just dreams but dreams with vision are real dreams. When God smiled in Genesis giving man dominion over what he has created, he made man have a focus to manage his resources and sustain his life. Man in appreciating the work of God has gone further to...
Endangered Species in Deng Deng-Belabo Conservation Corridor
This area is home to at least 40 species of large mammal(Diangha,2015) among the species, the most northern population of western lowland gorillas inhabit this area and occurs at higher density than in most sites in the East Region of Cameroon (Ambahe et al....
As Cameroon government backtracks on logging concession of Ebo Forest: what next?
-Ebo forest spans 200,000ha -The forest is one of the few pristine forest in Central Africa located in Southwestern Cameroon, precisely in the Littoral Region of Cameroon -Ebo forest is home to the critically endangered Nigeria-Cameroon Chimpanzees, western gorillas,...
Nlonako –Muanenguba Mountains under severe Human Pressure: Biodiversity vulnerable
Nlonako –Muanenguba Mountain represents one of the most fragile ecosystems in Cameroon harboring some of the worlds threaten fauna species that appear on the IUCN RED list. Most of these animals are endemic to the area hence making them been threaten of extinction by...