COP31: Cameroon, partners fine-tune strategy
By Leocadia Bongben In a high-level meeting held on November 2 in Yaoundé by His Excellency Matt Woods, British High Commissioner, and His Excellency Volkan Öskiper, Ambassador of Turkey to…
State of the Congo Basin Forest 2025: Central Africa must fund its own climate fight, scientists suggest
By Leocadia Bongben Scientists say Central African countries need to mobilise internal resources to finance climate change-related issues. This is one of the takeaways from the publication ‘The state of…
“We can now identify timber from illegal zones using Open Timber Portal and other tools”—Participant
By Leocadia Bongben As the curtain closed on the training of law enforcement agencies on using technology to combat illegal logging in Ebolowa from July 20-24, one of the participants,…
WWF FLR Initiative is restoring 18 million hectares of ecosystems in nine countries – report
By Leocadia Bongben According to a recent report released by WWF, its “forest landscape restoration in Africa initiative” is helping 55,000 indigenous people in Africa and repairing 18 million hectares…
Adolescent Health: second edition of CASADO scientific days to focus on teenage pregnancy
By Leocadia Bongben Yaoundé is set to host the second edition of Scientific Days of the Cameroonian Society of Adolescent Health, CASADO, which is billed from May 27 to 29…
Wildlife Crime: Suspected traffickers nabbed with 700 kg scales from 2300 pangolins
By Leocadia Bongben Cameroon-Yokadouma: Massive pangolin scale trafficking from Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Congo, and the Central African Republic to Cameroon. Three alleged traffickers who had almost 700 kg of pangolin…
Wildlife Trade: Tough times for traffickers as imprisonment awaits them
By Leocadia Bongben Tough times for traffickers in wildlife species, as a total of 8 traffickers were sentenced to varying prison terms in 2025. They were sentenced under the 1994…
How the CIBEL project is reviving community forests to change lives
Thanks to the CIBEL project, communities near the Nki and Boumba Bek National Parks in Cameroon’s east will soon benefit from their community forests by using forest earnings to construct…
Cop30: No agreement on transition from fossil fuels, deforestation roadmaps
At the close of COP30 in Belem, Brazil, countries could not agree on a roadmap for the transition from fossil fuels and deforestation, despite approving a set of modest actions…
COP30: Congo Basin CSOs say TFFF and CAFI Finance mechanisms are not accessible and unadapted to local realities
By Leocadia Bongben Representatives of civil society organisations, indigenous peoples and local communities, traditional authorities, community leaders, and public institutions from the countries of the Congo Basin gathered in Kinshasa…