The Cameroon government and the International Centre for Forestry Research (ICFR) have launched a national campaign aimed at promoting a behavioural change among timber users and to favour the buying of sustainable wood products. The campaign, launched on Monday, June 14, 2021 is being carried out under the auspices of the Ministry of Forestry and …
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The Centre for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) through its “Governance of Multifunctional Landscapes in Sub-Saharan Africa: Management of Social and Ecological Impacts” (GML) project Friday April 23, launched a campaign for the planting of 100,000 trees within the Okola and Evodoula communities under the patronage of the Ministry of Forestry and Wildlife (MINFOF). The campaign …
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For the past several years, the Cameroonian forestry sector has been corroded by corruption, fiscal evasion, illegal exploitation, violation of the laws on exportation and the non-respect of protected areas, which are just some of the ills that have been plaguing forestry governance in the country. All these illicit activities have been preventing the Cameroon …
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The government of Cameroon through its Ministry of the Environment, Nature Protection and Sustainable Development (MINEPDED) and the World Environment Fund, have signed an accord by which the Cameroon government would restore 12 million hectares of degraded landscapes by the year 2030. The accord for the beginning of The Restoration Initiative (TRI) project, envisages to …
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A Douala magistrate’s court in Ndokoti has jailed an elephant tusk trafficker to one year imprisonment with a fine of 200,000 FCFA (about US$400). Samuel Joel Manyombe, was jailed along with two of his accomplices, Lydie Makembe and Theopphile Tchiekou who also received one-year suspended sentences with a fine of 200,000 FCFA each. The three …
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The Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) and the Centre for the Environment and Development (CED), the two non-governmental organisations (NGOs), have accused Vietnamese forestry companies operating in Cameroon of “massacring the country’s forests using engine saws”. According to a just-published report entitled “Stolen Timber, Defiled Temples: The Nefarious Consequences of Timber Commerce Between Cameroon and Vietnam …
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The number of persons tested positive for COVID-19 in Cameroon hit 20,000 this week. The pandemic affects all the 10 regions of the country and has spread across all ethnic communities – except the pygmies, known locally as Baka. The Bakas are a native community still strange to the trappings of modern civilisation and they …
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Cameroon’s environment is deteriorating at an alarming rate with the wanton destruction of the country’s forest reserves. To this end, the Ministry of Environment, Nature Protection and Sustainable Development is searching for money to finance a new project. The project is geared towards re-dynamising the process of the reduction of emissions provoked by deforestation and …
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Over 1,500 square metres of illegally exploited timber has been seized in the Littoral Region of Cameroon since the beginning of 2020. In making the announcement during an exchange with the press in Douala August 19, 2020, the Littoral Regional Delegate of Forestry and Wildlife said in spite of the persistence of the criminal activities …
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There was a negative drop by 2.4 percent in tree cultivation and reforestation in 2019 as compared to 2018. Reports indicate that the downward trend is expected to continue in 2020, which is projected to witness a negative 6.4 percent drop. According to Cameroon’s Ministry of Economy, Plan and Regional Development, this negative trend is …
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In its fight against desertification in the three northern regions of Cameroon, the government launched an operation of afforestation dubbed “Green Sahel” in the early ‘70s during the reign of Cameroon’s first president Ahmadou Ahidjo. Due to some other environmental initiatives, the operation was suspended for some years but re-launched in 2008 on the instructions …
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The international environmental non-governmental organisation, Greenpeace, has expressed satisfaction over the rejection by the Cameroonian government of demands by timber exploiters in the country for tax reduction, using the negative effects of the COVID-19 as the reason for their requests. The rejection by the government of the demand is indicated in the revised 2020 finance …
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