Cameroon reduced the annual forest royalty by 25% to 35% starting January 1, 2026. Certified sustainable operators qualify ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...