Community Forestry in Cameroon [forestry taxation, community wildlife management, tourism, sustainable logging, decentralisation, poverty alleviation]

Collection which takes as its theme the many and important values which can be derived from community involvement in forest management in the humid tropics, focussing on one of the major timber producers of the tropical world – the West African country of Cameroon. The values in question relate to: poverty alleviation, sustainable livelihoods and community regeneration; sound and sustainable resource management; the conservation of critical biodiversity; and ultimately, the conservation of unique ecosystems to the long-term benefit of the global population at large. [author]

The papers included are:

• 'Community Forestry: Facing up to the Challenge in Cameroon'
  David Brown and Kathrin Schreckenberg
• 'The Development of Community Forests in Cameroon: Origins, Current Situation and Constraints'
  André Djeumo
• 'The Forestry Taxation System and the Involvement of Local Communities in Forest Management in Cameroon'
  Timothée Fomété
• 'Community Involvement in Forest Management: a Full-Scale Experiment in the South Cameroon Forest'
  Guillaume Lescuyer, Alexandre Emerit, Edouard Essiane Mendoula and Joseph Junion Seh
• 'Towards Participartory Biodiversity Conservation in the Onge-Mokoko Forests of Cameroon'
  James Acworth, Henry Ekwoge, Jean-Marie Mbani and Grace Ntube
• 'The Law, Communities and Wildlife Management in Cameroon'
  Samuel E. Egbe
• 'A Community Wildlife Management Model from Mount Cameroon'
  Kristin B. Olsen, Henry Ekwoge, Rose M. Ongie, James Acworth, Ebwekoh M. O'Kah and Charles Tako
• 'Gorilla-based Tourism: a Realistic Source of Community Income in Cameroon? Case study of the villages of Goungoulou and Karagoua'
  Elias Djoh and Mark van der Wal
• 'Community Hunting Zones: First Steps in the Decentralisation of Wildlife Management. Observations from the Village of Djaposten, Cameroon'
  Mark van der Wal and Elias Djoh
• 'Small-Scale Logging in Community Forests in Cameroon: Towards Ecologically more Sustainable and Socially more Acceptable Compromises'
  Ph. Auzel, G.M. Nguenang, R. Feteké and W. Delvingt
• 'Attempts to Establish Community Forests in Lomié, Cameroon'
  Martha Klein, Brice Salla and Jaap Kok
• 'The Role of Cocoa Agroforests in Community and Farm Foresty in Southern Cameroon'
  Denis Sonwa, Stephan F. Weise, Mathurin Tchatat, Bernard Nkongmeneck, Akinwumi A. Adesina, Ousseynou Ndoye and James Gockowski
• 'Opportunities and Constraints for 'Community-Based' Forest Management: findings from the Korup Forest, Southwest Province, Cameroon'
  Ruth Malleson
• 'Community Forestry and Poverty Alleviation in Cameroon'
  Timothée Fomété and Jaap Vermaat
• 'A Conservation Partnership: Community Forestry at Kilum-Imim,Cameroon'
  Anne A. Gardner, John DeMarco and Christian A. Asanga
• 'The 4Rs: a Valuable Tool for Management and Benefit Sharing Decisions for the Bimbia Bonadikombo Forest, Cameroon'
  Charles Tekwe and Fiona Percy