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The Centre for Research, Environmental Protection and Conservation-Cameroon (CEREPC Cameroon)

was created in March 2008,by a team of University graduates from the University of Buea and Dschang to initially help students facing difficulties in bio-conservation research and foster sustainable biodiversity protection and conservation. Later it was registered in July 2009 as a legal organization to foster grounded research on African biodiversity and species, help develop management plans,and guide environmental conservation and management.CeREPC was set up to fill this need by conducting, supporting and encouraging research into all aspects of the environment.

We are all about Researching for Scientific Facts, Best Practices, recording lesssons learnt etc to Utilise in Protecting and Conserving Fuana/FLora and Combatting Climate Change.

We trust in collective and individual actions in Protecting and Conserving Species and Combatting Climate Change to Keep a Safe Planet to our Future Generations.

OUR VALUES

ACCOUNTABILITY AND TRANSPARENCY

We are very accountable to all our stakeholders especially beneficiaries, the immediate community where we implement our projects, our Funders, the local authorities be it traditional/municipal /government. Our reports be it financial and program are shared to various stakeholder openly and our activities proceed with a methodology of inclusive planning, field implementation and monitoring and evalualtion at all phases.

INCLUSIVENES, DIVERSITY AND EQUALITY

Our work environment is visioned to be very diversed with volunteers from other countries, we encourage gender equality, inclusiveness working with people with disabilities …. We do not discriminate as we need the best of talents and contributions towards using science, research and best practices aimed at Protecting and Conserving Fuana/FLora and Combatting Climate Change.

PROFESSIONALISM, DEPENDABILITY, SERVICE, SUSTAINABILITY AND EXCEEDINGLY INNOVATIVE

CeREPC as a research Centre is exceedingly professional institution that focuses on science, the use of the most innovative techniques, lessons learnt and best practices geared at Environmental Protection, Species Conservation and Combatting Climate Change. Whilst ensuring sustainability by passing on viable knowledge, skills and resources to beneficiary communities and other stakeholders that will permit them operate sustainably for generations without any need for external support.

OUR BRIEF HISTORY

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BLOG/ACTIVITY UPDATES: ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION, FUANA/FLORA CONSERVATION AND CLIMATE CHANGE NEWSUPDATES AND OUR ACTIVITIES.

Lebialem Highlands: Urgent Cross River Gorilla Conservation Priorities

Biodiversity in the Lebialem Highlands is highly threatened, with IUCN Red List species such as the Cross River Gorilla, the Nigeria-Cameroon Chimpanzee and the African Forest Elephant unprotected due to two dreadful crises: the outbreak of the Cameroon Anglophone crisis and COVID-19. Government biodiversity officials in Anglophone Cameroon have been absent in most areas. The conservation of wildlife and their habitats in the Lebialem Highlands was paralyzed in 2017 by the Anglophone crisis that forced the management of the Tofala Hill Wildlife Sanctuary to leave the area. Many people sought refuge in the rainforest. As a result of this war, ...

Unite human, animal and environmental health to prevent the next pandemic – UN Report

COVID-19 is just one example of the rising trend of diseases – from Ebola to MERS to West Nile and Rift Valley fevers – caused by viruses that have jumped from animal hosts into the human population. A new assessment offers ten recommendations, and identifies One Health as the optimal way to prevent and respond to future pandemics. The rising trend in zoonotic diseases is driven by the degradation of our natural environment – through land degradation, wildlife exploitation, resource extraction, climate change, and other stresses. Nairobi, 6 July 2020 – As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to take lives and disrupt ...

BANCK Community Forest in Forest Corridor Approved by Cameroon Government

The government of Cameroon has approved the creation of a new community forest in Manyu Division. The two-year Provisional Management Agreement of the community forest to be named BANCK (Bakumba, Ayukaba, Numba, Chinda, Kendem) community forest, was approved by the Minister of Forestry and Wildlife, Philip Ngolle Ngwesse, through a Ministerial Decision N o 003 of January, 3 2018. According to the ministerial prescription, the community forest is situated in the South West Region, Manyu Division, Upper Bayang Sub-Division with villages involved being Bakumba, Ayukaba, Numba, Chinda and Kendem. It is bordered to the South of Bakumba and Ayukaba villages, ...

VERY RARE IMMAGES: Group of Cross River gorillas with babies caught on camera in Nigeria

Conservationists have captured images of a group of rare Cross River gorillas with multiple babies in Nigeria’s Mbe mountains – a sign that the subspecies once feared to be extinct is reproducing amid protection efforts. Only 300 Cross River gorillas (Gorilla gorilla diehli) are known to live in the wild, making them the most endangered gorilla sub-species. The animals are found only in an isolated region along the Nigeria/Cameroon border. Cross River gorillas are rarely seen, let alone photographed, even by remote cameras. Previously, camera traps at project sites in Cameroon and Nigeria have captured just a few images including ...

Community based approach the key to rainforest conservation

As the human population continues to grow at an exponential rate, the demands that arise have produced unforeseen impacts and pressures on our surrounding environment. Beginning in July 2016 with 100% community engagement and management, the Tofala-Mone East Corridor Community Rainforest Conservation Project was launched as a joint initiative between the African Conservation Foundation and the Environment and Rural Development Foundation to combat the negative impacts human action was having on the surrounding habitat. After three years of intensive fieldwork, four new Community Forests are now officially registered and recognised for the conservation of rainforest and its inhabitants in Cameroon ...

NGO takes action to save great apes in Cameroon’s Lebialem Highlands

Aminateh Nkemngu | Monga Bay The Lebialem Highlands, in Cameroon’s southwest, is a rugged mountainous and plateaued region still inhabited by the Critically Endangered Cross River gorilla, the Endangered Nigeria-Cameroon chimpanzee and the Vulnerable African forest elephant. While the Cameroon government has taken action by protecting swathes of forest in the region, they admit to being unable to fully protect this habitat from incursions by surrounding communities, who go to the protected lands to farm, harvest bushmeat, hunt, log and mine. The Environment and Rural Development Foundation (ERuDeF), an NGO, has stepped in to help protect Highlands conserved areas — ...

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ELEPHANTS DESTROY CROPS IN BUEA CAMEROON INCREASING THE TENSION OF HUMAN ELEPHANT CONFLICTS.

DUE TO THE INTERVENTIONS OF CeREPC AND OTHER STAKEHOLDERS, WE ARE HAPPY AND PROUD TO ANNOUNCE THAT THERE IS A MARKED INCREASE IN THE NUMBER OF CHIMPANZEES IN THE TOOOFALA WILDLIFE SANCTUARY..

20 Chimpanzees captured on Camera Trap in Tofala Hill Wildlife Sanctuary, SW Cameroon. WITH OUR FLAGSHIP ”SAVE THE CHIMPS PROJECT”, WE HAVE RECOREDED A MARKED REDUCTION IN POACHING AND HUNTING BY LOCAL COMMUNITIES AS WE SENSITIZED, EDUCATED LOCAL COMMUNITIES, PARTNERED WITH TRADITIONAL RULERS, ACTIVELY INVOLED THE YOUTHS AND PROVIDED THEM WITH ALTERNATIVE SOURCES OF LIVELIHOOD.

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