As in our Facebook page, Centre for Indigenous Resources Management and Development – Cirmad, we ended the commemoration of the 2019 World_Wildlife_Day week, with an S. O. S. for the Ako-Mbembe Forest Reserve, one of the chimpanzee habitat sites of the North West Region of Cameroon, which is currently in the process of officially becoming a Forest Management Unit (FMU 11-010) for industrial forest exploitation. The 2011 Regional Action Plan for the Conservation of the Nigeria-Cameroon chimpanzee recognized and rated it as “IMPORTANT PRIORITY SITE” for the conservation of the IUCN Red-listed ENDANGERED chimp species (Pan troglodytes ellioti).

The Regional Action Plan was co-prefaced by the then Cameroon Minister of Forestry and Wildlife alongside his Nigerian colleague (Federal Minister of Environment).

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