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Importance of Ecotourism for Gorilla Conservation
The Virunga Mountains are well known for their populations of mountain gorillas – an endangered species found only in the border area between Rwanda, Uganda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The area hosts more than a million visitors per year resulting in significant tourism revenue. The majority of the revenues comes from tourists…
Cameroon’s first-ever P3DM project launched
A three-dimensional model of part of the Cameroon Highlands has been unveiled today on Monday 30 May in an official ceremony at the Southwest Regional Delegation of Forestry and Wildlife (MINFOF). A Participatory 3D Mapping project has been conducted earlier this month in communities surrounding the proposed Tofala-Mone East Wildlife Corridor in South West Cameroon….
New protected area established for world’s rarest ape, the Cross River Gorillas in South West Cameroon
After 10 years of conservation action and preparations, Prime Minister of Cameroon Philémon Yang has signed a Decree to officially create Tofala Hill Wildlife Sanctuary in South West Cameroon. Besides the critically endangered Cross River gorilla, this landscape is also home to the most endangered African chimpanzee and other endangered wildlife, such as the Drill…
75,000 people call on Cameroon government to establish new Cross River Gorilla reserves
Nearly 75,000 people have signed a petition started by the African Conservation Foundation to support the establishment of a Cross River gorilla reserve in Cameroon. People from around the world expressed their concerns about the protected status of these critically endangered great apes. On the first of March 2013, the conservation community was shocked about the…
New Conservation Complex Will Protect Critically Endangered Cross River Gorillas in the Cameroon Highlands
Estimates on the number of Cross River gorillas (Gorilla gorilla diehli) remaining is 250–300 in the wild. Their range is very fragmented. Due to human population growth and agricultural encroachment, the gorillas are being forced into higher altitudes with steep slopes, unsuitable for farming. The recent killing of a male Cross River Gorilla stressed the…
Cross River Gorilla Silverback Slaughtered in Cameroon
A male Cross River Gorilla has been shot earlier this month in the Lebialem Highlands near Pinyin in the Santa Sub Division of North West Cameroon. The presence of this silverback gorilla was reported by a local teacher who was going to her farm very early in the morning on March 1st 2013 at about…
Threatened bird thought to exist only in Nigeria and Ghana discovered in Cameroon
The Ibadan Malimbe (Malimbus ibadanensis) hitherto thought to exist only in Nigeria and Ghana was recently captured in the Lebialem Mone forest in the South West region of Cameroon by the camera of a group of biologists from the Environment and Rural Development Foundation, ERuDeF. These researchers were accompanied by international volunteers from USA, Germany…
Rare Video of Cross River Gorillas in Cameroon
Conservationists working in Cameroon’s Kagwene Gorilla Sanctuary have collected the first camera trap video footage of the Cross River gorilla. The extremely rare recording was made by a camera triggered by motion sensors. You can see the silverback male gorilla running through the group, displaying chest beating. Researchers of WCS suggest he may have been…
Cameroon: Environmental Education leaves classrooms
Environmental clubs of schools in Mak-Betchou and the Tofala areas made their mark in the celebrations of February 11, 2012 activities which had as theme ‘Youths and participation in Major accomplishment for an emerging Cameroon’. As part of the programme, the different clubs marched with placards and banners carrying varied environmental messages like ‘Conserve our…
Satellite Study Reveals Critical Habitat and Corridors for World’s Rarest Gorilla
Conservationists working in Central Africa to save the world’s rarest gorilla have good news: the Cross River gorilla has more suitable habitat than previously thought, including vital corridors that, if protected, can help the great apes move between sites in search of mates, according to the North Carolina Zoo, the Wildlife Conservation Society, and other…
Nigeria: Cooperation, education and enforcement key to Cross River gorilla survival
Efforts to save the Cross River gorilla, Africa’s most endangered ape, received renewed hope after the United Nations (UN) recently approved $4 million to help Nigeria further promote conservation and sustainable forest management. Environmentalists welcomed the news, which will help fund the country’s National Programme for Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+) program,…
League City girl raises $700 for threatened gorillas
A gorilla species that’s been called Africa’s most-endangered primate has found an advocate in a League City girl. Berit Doolittle, 11, learned about the Cross River Gorilla from her mother Daniette Hunter, who home-schools her in League City. Wildlife advocates say this particular species inhabits just a small region along the border between Nigeria and…