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Wildlife of Cameroon

On Mammals

Introduction to Elephants of Cameroon
African Elephants (Loxodonta africana) were added to the endangered species list in 1988. Concern for their survival arose after increasing ivory prices provoked unprecedented poaching during the 1970s. In Cameroon, the elephant is further threatened by the expansion of human populations into its historical habitat areas. Conflicts between humans and elephants–often arising after elephants ransack valuable agricultural fields–often lead to the death of the latter.

Wildlife tours of Camaroon

Wildlife and primates tour in Camaroon

Begin in Limbe, home to one of Cameroon’s most important primate conservation programmes where you’ll meet the gorilla, chimpanzee and other primate groups. You then visit the Dzangha Sanga Reserve and see a recently habituated group of Western Lowland Gorilla. More here

On birds in Camaroon

Camaroon birds (Birding pal)

Cameroon with more than 900 bird species in 76 families, 7 endemic and 20 specialty species, is not well known for birding, even if it is the richest West African country for birdwatching.
Part of the lower Guinea Endemic Bird Area (EBA) with six bird species found nowhere else in the world, and Cameroon’s highly diverse habitat with lowland tropical rainforest, mangrove swamps and beaches to the south and west combined with Pro-Sahelian savanna in the northern provinces, makes it a birdwatchers paradise.
Of the endemics the Red-headed Picathartes or Grey-necked Rockfowl is the most famous, and well worth the trek into Korup National Park to visit the Picathartes Knoll, where the birds come into roost every night.

General Camaroon nature

Wildlife of Camaroon (Wikipedia)

The Cameroonian Highlands forests extend across the Cameroon Highlands, covering an area of 38,000 square kilometers (14,700 square miles) in eastern Nigeria and western Cameroon. The ecoregion lies above 900 meters elevation, and is surrounded at lower elevations by the Cross-Sanaga-Bioko coastal forests at the southern end of the range, and by forest-savanna mosaic along the central and northern ends of the range; the Cameroon Highlands form the boundary between the Guinean and Northern Congolian forest-savanna mosaic ecoregions.

Cameroonian Highlands forests (World Wildlife Fund This is one of the least well-protected ecoregions in Africa. No part of this ecoregion is under formal protected status in Cameroon, although local traditional rulers still exert considerable authority over land use.

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