Disturbing field pictures of the excessive trans-border logging in Ako-Mbembe Forest Reserve, an internationally recognized habitat site of the Endangered Nigeria-Cameroon chimpanzee, via the Taraba State of Nigeria. The exploited wood is evacuated in logs and beams.

Unfortunately, the response of the Cameroon government has been the current process of transforming the 85 years old Forest Reserve to a timber concession (FMU 11-010). This should be a serious cause for concern too for the protagonists of the 2011 Regional Action Plan for the Conservation of the Nigeria-Cameroon Chimpanzee, especially the organizations responsible for the implementation of the Action Plan in Ako-Mbembe alongside the Cameroon Ministry of Forestry and Wildlife, notably ERuDeF, FFI, ACF and others. CIRMAD has engaged an advocacy against the move, with petition letters right to the Prime Minister and an online petition.

There is serious need for trans-boundary conservation actions for this trans-boundary conservation problem.