Cameroon is in Africa’s top five countries for biodiversity yet is facing a devastating decline in species due to habitat loss, poaching, and illegal wildlife trade (IWT). The consequences of this decline go beyond ecological concerns, as they also impact the country's economy, socio-cultural fabric, and wider conservation efforts. Analysis …
Cameroon has burned more than three tons of pangolin skins and scales seized from smugglers and destined for Asian countries. The central African state says by burning the skins of the world's most trafficked mammal and arresting smugglers, it is sending strong signals that Cameroon will no longer be a …
In the remote Central African rainforest, two major charities are battling over the future of some 50,000 pygmies, beset by poverty, hunger and alcoholism after they were evicted from their lands to save iconic elephants and gorillas. As wildlife populations shrink at an unprecedented rate, conservation groups are pouring millions …
Cameroon achieved the elimination target of leprosy in 2000, and has maintained this status ever since. However, a number of health districts in the country continue to report significant numbers of leprosy cases. The aim of this study was to assess the burden of leprosy in Cameroon from 2000 to …
IN 2002 British American Tobacco (BAT), a big cigarette manufacturer, shuttled a temporary cinema around six Nigerian cities in what it called the “Rothmans Experience It Cinema Tour”. The company screened “Ocean’s Eleven”, “The Matrix” and other blockbusters for crowds of Nigerians, excited by the foreign concepts of high quality …
Cameroon’s timber sector, combined with weak law enforcement, have fueled a surge in illegal logging that is fast depleting the nation's forests, experts warn. But the government is hoping a new association it has set up for Chinese firms exploiting forests will strengthen links with officials and enable those companies …
A bird flu outbreak has killed 15,000 fowls at a neighbourhood in Yaounde, capital of Cameroon. The deaths, linked to the Avian Influenza, were confirmed by Cameroon’s national veterinary laboratory. The 15,000 dead fowls represent 50 per cent of birds in the facility, one of the largest in the country. …
A forest campaigner with Greenpeace Africa, has stated that Cameroon must team up with the European Union if the country is keen on combating the incidence of illegal logging and timber export. ”If Cameroon is serious about ending the illegal timber trade, it must work closely with the EU towards …
This is according to the UN which says that half the residents in the region are facing chronic food insecurity and malnutrition as violence continues to escalate. The fighting is blamed on Boko Haram militants and estimates indicate that 2.4 million people have been forced to flee from their homes …
Amphibian populations are vanishing worldwide. Declines and extinctions of many populations have been attributed to chytridiomycosis, a disease induced by the pathogenic fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (Bd). In Africa, however, changes in amphibian assemblages were typically attributed to habitat change. We conducted a retrospective study utilizing field surveys from 2004–2012 of …
FARM incomes in Zimbabwe are expected to decline by as much as 38 percent by 2050, as temperatures soar 3,4 percent in what would be an unprecedented catastrophe for agriculture, according to a new study. The study by Science Direct shows the extent of damage that climate change will have …
US ambassador to the UN, Samantha Power, hailed the Cameroon ceremony as symbolic of commitment to win war against illegal smuggling of animal products Some 2,000 illegally trafficked elephant tusks and hundreds of finished ivory products erupted in a ball of fire on Tuesday as Cameroonian authorities conducted what was …
It’s hard to ignore a red colobus monkey in the forests of Equatorial Guinea’s Bioko Island, off the coast of Cameroon. The shaggy, orange-and-maroon-hued primates bark and squawk like barnyard animals. Top notch communications skills, perhaps, but their noise-making has also played a role in their endangered status. That’s because …
WWF, the world’s largest conservation organisation, has been accused by leading tribal defence group Survival International of inadvertently facilitating serious human rights abuses against pygmy groups living in Cameroonian rainforests. In a 228-page formal complaint to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, (OECD), Survival alleges that anti-poaching eco-guards who …
Agricultural expansion has transformed and fragmented forest habitats at alarming rates across the globe, but particularly so in tropical landscapes. The resulting land-use configurations encompass varying mosaics of tree cover, human settlements and agricultural land units. Meanwhile, global demand for agricultural commodities is at unprecedented levels. The need to feed …
African countries have agreed to cooperate in setting limits for use of lead in paints with a view to phasing it out by 2020. This is because of its dangers to human beings, especially to children, and the environment. In a workshop jointly organised by United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) …
A new report has debunked the argument that the illegal wildlife trade in East Africa significantly funds terrorism - an exaggeration used to justify the militarization of anti-poaching squads and the persecution of tribal subsistence hunters. The report titled "An Illusion of Complicity: Terrorism and the Illegal Ivory Trade in …
Cameroon and the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) of the United Nations have reinforced bilateral ties by signing two agreements on Friday September 4, 2015 in Yaounde. The first accord signed between Cameroon's Minister of External Relations, Pierre Moukoko Mbonjo and the FAO Director General, José Graziano da Silva, was …
Cameroon and FAO today signed two agreements: one creating a $20 million, five-year Partnership Programme aimed at promoting agricultural development in the Central African nation, the other establishing an expanded Partnership and Liaison office here in the capital. The agreements were signed by Pierre Moukoko Mbonjo Cameroon's Minister of External …
The Mvomeka village solar power station project constructed by Huawei Technologies Company Cameroon Ltd. in Cameroon's South Region has brought benefit to around 15,000 villagers. The completion ceremony of Mvomeka village solar power station project phase II was held Thursday in Mvomeka village with the participation of Cameroonian Water Resources …
Efforts to control poaching in the Littoral Region in the last year are said to have been successful. The poaching of small mammals in forest reserves between August 2014 and August 2015 has reduced. While evaluating the 2014 recommendations of the Committee for the Fight Against Poaching in the region …
