PANGAR, Cameroon (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Sitting in front of his mud house in Pangar, a forest village in Cameroon’s East region, Mokuine Anatole sharpens his machete in the early morning ...

A new association set up for Chinese firms exploiting Cameroon's forests aims to help them work within the law YAOUNDE, July 12 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A rise in Chinese companies operating in ...

Ebo Forest covers nearly 2,000 square kilometres (about 770 square miles) of lowland and montane forest in southwestern Cameroon. Camera traps deployed by the Clubs des Amis des Gorilles (Gorilla ...

The Endangered Nigeria-Cameroon chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes ellioti) is the least numerous subspecies of chimpanzee, with a total population almost certainly less than 9,000, and probably less than ...

Washington, April 5, 2012 – Today the World Bank Board of Executive Directors approved a US$3.5 million grant from the Global Environment Facility (GEF) Trust Fund to the Republic of Cameroon to ...

It represents the struggle of a country trying to balance developmental aspirations with ecological and cultural identity. On one hand, there is a real need to use Cameroon’s natural resources as a ...

An evaluation workshop on the management and control reforms held in Yaounde on Tuesday November 2, 2010. Forestry stakeholders in the country are seeking ways of surmounting challenges of governance ...

Cameroon's Ebo forest is a biologically diverse area that is home to a rich selection of flora and to critically endangered primates, including the only population of chimpanzees in the world known to ...

A key feature of function and beauty on a guitar is ebony wood. All ebony used by Taylor Guitars, a leading manufacturer of acoustic guitars, comes from Cameroon, including the region where the ...

As Cameroon expands its ability to produce clean power, people living near the new dams are losing the forest they depend on PANGAR, Cameroon, July 26 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Sitting in front ...

YAOUNDE (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A rise in Chinese companies operating in Cameroon’s timber sector, combined with weak law enforcement, have fuelled a surge in illegal logging that is fast ...