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Unfair Forestry Policies Abet Poverty, Finds New Study

March 13, 2008
Location: WASHINGTON, D.C.

Unfair government policies fail to benefit poor people who live in the forests of many developing countries. Those same policies fail even to protect forests, according to a new study.

Status of Logging Titles in Cameroon: June 2006

January 14, 2008

Forest Landscapes Initiative

WRI seeks to increase the ability of governments, businesses, and civil society to protect intact forest landscapes, manage working forests more effectively, and restore deforested lands.

Interactive Forestry Atlas of Cameroon (version 2.0)

Benoit Mertens, Matthew Steil, Lawrence Ayenika Nsoyuni, Gideon Neba Shu, Susan Minnemeyer

March, 2007

This interactive atlas tool allows users to access the most complete and up-to-date information on the Cameroon forest sector – timber extraction areas, forest concession management plan status, volume of timber logged by concession area, and more.

Promoting Good Governance for People and Environment in Africa

November 9, 2006

WRI’s work with partners to monitor legislative representation in Africa was presented recently in Cameroon.

Interactive Forestry Atlas of Cameroon (version 1.0)

Susan Minnemeyer, Jim Beck, Otodo Kede, Frederic Medjo, Roger Ngoufo, Lawrence Ayenika Nsoyuni, and Maria Jacoba Van de Pol

March, 2005

In one source, this Atlas contains much of the relevant spatially explicit data for forest management and governance in Cameroon.

Note: A more recent version of this Atlas is available.

Legislative Representation and the Environment: Lessons from a case study of Cameroon

Prudence Tangham Galega and Phil Rene Oyono
April, 2004

This brief highlights the incentives that provide an opportunity for legislators to effectively perform as well as the disincentives which impede the legislator’s effectiveness regarding the representation of their consituents’ environmental needs.

1999-2000 Allocation of Logging Permits in Cameroon: Fine-tuning Central Africa's First Auction System

Jean-Gael Collomb and Henriette Bikié (Global Forest Watch Cameroon)

October, 2000

Cameroon’s forestry legislation is implemented by the allocation of ventes de coupe, Unités Forestières d’Aménagement (UFA) and community forests. This paper presents information on how different logging rights were allocated and to whom.

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