YAOUNDE (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Cameroon’s government plans to restore 12 million hectares (30 million acres) of deforested land to redress the challenges of dwindling forests and help mitigate ...

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 ...

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 ...

Yvette Moungonji, a Baka (Indigenous people of Cameroon) woman from Salapoumbe, southeast Cameroon, beckons passers-by to a table where she has displayed her herbs for sale. “Save your marriage. Save ...

Forest is cleared to make way for an oil palm plantation at Talangaye in Cameroon's southwest. PHOTO/Ministry of Forestry and Wildlife As climate 'tipping points' near, scientists plan for the ...

The Cameroon government announced that a logging concession for Ebo Forest, which was approved three weeks ago, has been cancelled. Ebo Forest is a large, intact forest system in southwestern Cameroon ...

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 ...

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 ...

Gone are the days when taboos helped protect rich forest areas so highly reverered in Africa's traditional society. Find out more about forest protection in and around Cameroon's Mt Kupe. The wise men ...

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 ...

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 ...

Gone are the days when taboos helped protect rich forest areas so highly reverered in Africa's traditional society. Find out more about forest protection in and around Cameroon's Mt Kupe. The wise men ...