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SUFACHAC project signs Agreement with Community Initiatives
The Sustainable Farming and Critical Habitat Conservation (SUFACHAC) through its implementing partner, the Environment and Rural Development Foundation (ERuDeF), developed and signed agreements with some community initiative from Kupe Muanenguba and Lebialem...
Lake Oku: Home to the endemic clawed frog (Xenopus longipes)
Lake Oku is a crater lake on the Bamenda Plateau in the Northwest Region of Cameroon. It is located at 2,227 metres (7,306 ft) on Mount Oku, and is completely surrounded by cloud forest. Lake Oku has no specific protection but is surrounded by montane forest, with a...
ERuDeF at the heart of waste recovery in the Mount Bamboutos landscape
The problem of land degradation and declining soil fertility is a reality in the steeply sloping lands of Mount Bamboutos. In order to fight against this land degradation and biodiversity loss, a "Forest Garden" project was initiated to plant trees and help farmers...
COVID-19, a Huge Challenge for IDPs
The Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in Cameroon have been going through untold hardship in their new settlements. These people, who have been displaced because of the Anglophone crisis, now live at the mercy of God and largess of people of good will, since they...
MBI midterm review meeting held: path covered in the first pilot phase of the life changing project, challenges and ways to overcome them
By Shuimo Trust The midterm debriefing meeting for the first pilot phase of the Mount Bamboutos Initiative (MBI) project has taken place. The meeting took place at the headquarters of the Environment and Rural Development Foundation, ERuDeF in Buea on Friday April 3,...
Proposed zoning plan in the Mount Bamboutos area
The Mount Bamboutos area is a cosmopolitan environment characterized by varied land use patterns which generate conflicts between farmers and grazers, farmers and farmers and between villages. Also the population is facing a decrease of agricultural yields, a lack of...
Training of farmers on nursery establishment on Mount Bamboutos landscape
The Forest Gardens Project II kicked off on March 2020, with the training and practical establishment of nurseries in each locality in Mount Bamboutos landscape. Nursery establishment is the preliminary stage of trees planting. Being a special site for the production...
Smoking of fish; big threat to the Mangrove Ecosystem
Mangroves are facultative halophytes that occur as forests at the confluence of the land-sea interface and are limited to the tropical and subtropical coastlines of the world. Despite their limited geographical range, mangroves are among the most productive ecosystems...
Final vision for Great Apes in the Lebialem Highlands
The historic entrance of ERuDeF into the great apes conservation in the Lebialem highlands started in 2004, when she discover another sub population of the cross river gorilla in what is known today as the Tofala Hill Wildlife Sanctuary. Since then, research efforts...
Conservation efforts in Ebo Forest National Park goes in vain
The proposed Ebo Forest National Park that cuts across the Sanaga Maritime and the Nkam divisions in the Littoral Region of Cameroon is one of the most important remaining tracts of closed-canopy forest in the Littoral region. It covers a surface area of 111, 2880...