* Central African forest elephants risk extinction * Asian demand, widespread logging, more weapons to blame * Forest elephant ivory especially prized By Tansa Musa YAOUNDE, April 26 (Reuters) - ...

Cameroon, partners pledge $2.5 billion for forest management CAFI funds reforms balancing conservation and economic growth $60 million pilot phase launches projects through 2028 Cameroon and its ...

In southeastern Cameroon, the Indigenous Baka people are helping protecting their forests with the Sapelli app. They spearheaded the design of this tool as part of a 2021 project launched in six ...

Cameroon’s government is again planning to open a portion of Ebo Forest to logging, despite its status as a refuge for numerous endangered species including gorillas and chimpanzees. A local leader of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For Evambe Thompson, the health of Mount Cameroon’s surrounding forests is inextricable from his own livelihood. As a beekeeper in ...

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 ...

A trained forest defender is ready for duty tracking down illegal logging in Kadey in Cameroon's East Region. TRF/Elias Ntungwe Nagalame KADEY, Cameroon, Feb 3 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - In an ...

Forest restoration is welcome, but it's more critical to protect existing forests, which provide the greatest benefits in terms of limiting climate change and protecting biodiversity YAOUNDE, March 30 ...

YAOUNDE (Reuters) - Poachers have killed 28 endangered forest elephants in the Nki and Lobeke national parks in southeast Cameroon in recent weeks, the conservation organisation WWF said on ...

WWF welcomes the National Forest Stewardship Standard (NFSS) published by the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) in Cameroon after a five-year multi-stakeholder revision process (2015-2020). The NFSS ...

In Cameroon’s Extreme North region, the arrival of tens of thousands of Nigerian refugees has had an impact on an already fragile environment. In one of the country’s poorest regions what little ...

YAOUNDE (Reuters) - Forest elephants in Cameroon and the Congo Basin could be extinct within 10 years without measures to fight the illegal ivory trade and curb habitat loss, a WWF official said in an ...