logging Archives - Well Grounded

Increasing community’s right to land through participatory mapping

admin2022-03-11T13:45:02+00:00September 16th, 2016|

The Congo Basin forest is the second largest tropical forest and the third largest forest in the world. This forest is considered as one of the most important ecological zones in the world with over 10,000 species of plants, 1000 species of birds, 500 species of fishes and over 500 variety of mammals. Hence, it produces substantial financial resources for states in the region including Cameroon. In Cameroon, the government launched ‘Vision 2035’ which aims at bringing development to the country via the industrialization of Cameroon’s economy. Within this context, there exists a combination of several factors that place additional pressure [...]

Industrial forest exploitation: the main cause of deforestation

admin2022-03-11T13:45:02+00:00August 9th, 2016|

This is the result of a study carried out by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) examining the causes of deforestation and forest degradation in central Africa. In Cameroon, over 44 762 hectares of forest are devastated annually by industrial exploitation in the TRIDOM (Tri-National Dja-Odzala-Minkébé). This is the finding of a study carried out by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). This situation is due to the surface of annual allowable cuts by the logging companies. However, as stated by the study, the surface of annual allowable cuts is only one of the indicators of the [...]