Cameroon Flashcards
1
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Environmental
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- Habitat Fragmentation
- Cross River Gorillas (200-300)
- Endangered Nigerian-Cameroon chimpanzees
- Threatened forest elephants and pangolins
2
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Timber industry
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- $780 million industry
- 30% of national income
- 7% of GDP
- 27,000 direct jobs
- 150,000 indirect jobs
3
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GIS apps
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- Open Data Kit
- Mapping for Rights
4
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Forest Defenders
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- 100 trained
- 185 killed in 2015 in 16 countries for defending their lands, forests and rivers
5
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Cameroon Forestry Law 1994
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- Appointing independent observers to identify and publish illegal logging practices
- Community-based forest management
- Increased timber prices and revenue returned to people
- Creation of permanent forests (30% of Cameroon)
- New, sustainable logging practices
6
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1994 law stats
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- 8% increase in land allocation for protected areas
- 300 community designed forests
- Illegal logging decline to 10% of timber production
7
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Deforestation stats
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- Fourfold rise between 2006-2014
- 120,000 hectares lost in 2016
- Over 18% of forests lost since 1990
8
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1994 weaknesses
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- Illegal logging still concern
- Fines too small and too few reported (25 out of 100 in corruption)
- Huge lack of workforce to monitor illegal logging and corruption
Rapid deforestation still occuring
9
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1994 reforms
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- 2016
- 4 licences suspended
- 35 issued with warnings
- fines over $88000
10
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Birth rate
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4.54
11
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REDD+
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Reduced Emissions for Deforestation and Forest Degradation
12
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REDD+ funding
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$118m out of $43b
13
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REDD+ aims
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Halt CO2 emissions by 2030 by funding local and region afforestation projects in developing nations
14
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REDD+ in Cameroon
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- Financial incentives to keep forests intact
- Land management planning and mapping
- Training in afforestation practices and beekeeping
- Making protected areas
15
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REDD+ problems
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- Lack of indigenous co-operation
- Income levels decreased
- Farmers question practices
- Moved the problem
