Starting in 1994, Cameroon introduced regulatory and market-based reforms to regulate access to its rainforests, balance public and private interests in those forests, and integrate wider economic, cultural, and environmental perspectives of the value of forests. Based on historical data and extensive interviews, this report concludes that the reforms brought order over the most aggressively competing interests and started to address deeper social and environmental issues, but a significant unfinished agenda remains. On the positive side, information on the boundaries, ownership, use rights,...
Starting in 1994, Cameroon introduced regulatory and market-based reforms to regulate access to its rainforests, balance public and private interests ...
En 1994, le gouvernement camerounais a initie des reformes legales et commerciales visant a reguler les droits d'acces et d'usage des forets tropicales, qui constituent une richesse incontestable pour le pays. Ces reformes cherchaient a equilibrer les interets publics et prives et a plus largement integrer les perspectives economiques, culturelles et environnementales. Aujourd'hui, plus de 60 pourcent des forets tropicales du Cameroun sont exploitees selon un plan d amenagement agree. L'exploitation illegale dans les forets amenagees a significativement diminue, la biodiversite est protegee...
En 1994, le gouvernement camerounais a initie des reformes legales et commerciales visant a reguler les droits d'acces et d'usage des forets tropicale...
The Congo Basin forests have been mainly "passively" protected by chronic political instability and conflict, poor infrastructure, and poor governance. Congo Basin countries thus still fit the profile of high forest cover/ low deforestation (HFLD) countries. However, there are signs that Congo Basin forests are under increasing pressure from a variety of sources, including mineral extraction, road development, agribusiness, and biofuels, in addition to subsistence agricultural expansion and charcoal collection. Congo Basin countries are now at a crossroad - they are not yet locked into a...
The Congo Basin forests have been mainly "passively" protected by chronic political instability and conflict, poor infrastructure, and poor governance...
Les forets du bassin du Congo ont ete protegees de maniere largement passive du fait de l'instabilite politique et des conflits chroniques, des infrastructures insuffisantes et de la faible gouvernance qui ont caracterise la region. Les pays du bassin presentent ainsi toujours un profil caracterise par une large couverture forestiere et des taux de deforestation faible. Toutefois, il existe des signaux qui semblent indiquer que la pression sur les forets du bassin augmente sous l'influence de facteurs varies incluant l'extraction miniere, le developpement des infrastructures routieres,...
Les forets du bassin du Congo ont ete protegees de maniere largement passive du fait de l'instabilite politique et des conflits chroniques, des infras...
