Download or read book The Plants of Bali Ngemba Forest Reserve Cameroon written by Yvette Harvey and published by Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Initially thought of as aseriously degraded forest area,the Bali Ngemba Forestreserve has harboured manyplants of special scientificinterest and at least 25 undescribed taxa. Coversvegetation, geology, ethnobotany, exploration, birds ofthe region, a comprehensive checklist of plantsgrowing in the region and numerous illustrationsincluding eight pages of photographs.
Download or read book Historical Dictionary of the Republic of Cameroon written by Mark Dike DeLancey and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-06-15 with total page 831 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cameroon is a land of much promise, but a land of unfulfilled promises. It has the potential to be an economically developed and democratic society but the struggle to live up to its potential has not gone well. Since independence there have been only two presidents of Cameroon; the current one has been in office since 1982. Endowed with a variety of climates and agricultural environments, numerous minerals and substantial forests, and a dynamic population, this is a country that should be a leader of Africa. Instead, we find a country almost paralyzed by corruption and poor management, a country with a low life expectancy and serious health problems, and a country from which the most talented and highly educated members of the population are emigrating in large numbers. To all of this is recently added a serious terrorism problem, Boko Haram, in the north, a separatist movement in the Anglophone west, refugee influxes in the north and east, and bandits from the Central African Republic attacking eastern villages. This fifth edition of Historical Dictionary of the Republic of Cameroon contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 300 cross-referenced entries on important personalities, politics, economy, foreign relations, religion, and culture. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about the Republic of Cameroon.
Download or read book The Plants of Dom Bamenda Highlands Cameroon written by Martin Cheek and published by Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book describes the 356 species and varieties of plant discovered in the forests of Dom, located in the Bamenda Highlands of North West Region of Cameroon, and is designed to enable identification of the plant species within the checklist area, in particular those threatened with extinction - the highest priorities for conservation. To this end, details to aid the monitoring and management of each of the threatened taxa are given in a separate Red Data chapter, which includes line drawings.
Download or read book Library of Congress Subject Headings written by Library of Congress and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 1128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Plants of Lebialem Highlands Bechati Fosimondi Besali Cameroon written by Yvette Harvey and published by Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. This book was released on 2010 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a flora of the Lebialem Highlands area, Cameroon. Introductory chapters cover the vegetation, geology, soil types, climate, threats, invasive and alien plants, ethnobotany and history of botanical exploration in the area. A Red Data chapter contains the results of assessing the status of all the species covered, accompanied by colour photographs of the most threatened species.
Download or read book Local Livelihoods and Protected Area Management written by Neba Ndenecho and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2011-07-26 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cameroons tropical forest is home to numerous plants and animals. It is also inhabited by Baka pygmies who are foragers and Bantu farmers. These communities have developed forestdependent livelihoods, cultures and religions. Destruction of the forest by commercial and state interests, subsistence agriculture and the harvesting of products has necessitated a considerable upsurge in environmental protection projects to conserve and rehabilitate ecosystems, forests, soils and water resources. Ultimately, the approach to conservation that is applied is the responsibility of the government and international development agencies. The case studies documented seek to demonstrate that a broader perspective linking environmental protection and human welfare is important for two reasons. First, it addresses the rights and needs of local people and more marginal groups in society. Second, it also ensures that fundamental conservation objectives are achieved in practice with the participation of local people. The book develop guidelines for a more integrative and sociallyaware approach to environmental planning and project design and implementation. It outlines a participatory mapping procedure for the design and implementation of community forest programmes. This is a valuable book for land resource managers, environmentalists, environmental biologists, conservators, field workers and technicians involved with environmental conservation. With the professionalisation of courses in most universities, the book will constitute good reading for students of geography, biology, agriculture, forestry, botany and natural resource management.
Download or read book The Plants of Mount Oku and the Ijim Ridge Cameroon written by Martin Cheek and published by Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. This book was released on 2000 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Oku-Ijim in the Bamenda Highlands, is a region where 96.5% of the original vegetation has been lost. A Red Data chapter assesses the status of 56 threatened taxa in detail. Chapters on the history of botanical exploration, ethnobotany, geology and soils, climate and vegetation are included.
Download or read book Red Data Book of the Flowering Plants of Cameroon written by Jean-Michel Onana and published by Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is tropical Africa's first Red Data book for plants. Cameroon contains tropical Africa's most species-diverse hotspots for plants; many are rare and threatened with extinction. In the book 815 species are documented as being threatened using IUCN global assessments, most being assessed for the first time. Short species descriptions to aid identification in the field are given, as well as notes on habitats and threats, together with distribution maps and management suggestions to assist better conservation.
Download or read book Ethnobotanic Resources of Tropical Montane Forests written by Emmanuel Neba Ndenecho and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2011 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mountain forests provide important ecological services, and essential products. This book focuses on the importance of mountain forests in Cameroon for the local people who depend most directly on them, and have often developed a wealth of indigenous knowledge on plants and sophisticated institutions for managing limited plant and animal resources. Such knowledge and institutions have often been threatened, or even destroyed, by centralization and globalization; yet there is increasing recognition that community-based institutions are the best adapted to ensuring that mountain forests continue to supply their diverse goods and services to both mountain and other people over the long-term. The book provides a useful combination of case studies on ethnobotanic analysis and cultural values of plants, community-based ecological planning for protected area management and eco-cultural tourism development. It provides an unusually useful combination of overviews and synthesis of theory and experience with in-depth case studies of montane forest-adjacent communities and protected areas. Throughout the book there are good summary tables, case study maps, and diagrams that are relevant to the themes in question. Finally, the book addresses the possible mutual benefits of indigenous knowledge and modern science, indigenous peoples and the development of eco-cultural tourism in protected areas, indigenous peoples and ecological planning in protected areas. It therefore emphasizes cooperation based on partnerships amongst indigenous people, governments and the global conservation community, in the interest of effective conservation. This is a valuable book for land managers, environmental scientists, environmental biologists, natural resource managers and students reading subjects such as geography, biology, forestry, botany and environmental science.
Download or read book Plant Talk written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 1080 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Taxonomy and Ecology of African Plants Their Conservation and Sustainable Use written by Shahina A. Ghazanfar and published by Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. This book was released on 2006 with total page 824 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes sixty research papers in separate sections on taxonomy, forests and forestry, phytogeography, ecology, and the conservation and sustainable use of African plants.
Download or read book The Plants of Kupe Mwanenguba and the Bakossi Mountains Cameroon written by Martin Cheek and published by Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With 2412 species described,of which 232 are assessed asglobally threatened and 82 asstrictly endemic, from an areaof 2390 km2, this bookdocuments what nowappears to be Tropical Africa’s richest centre of diversity.Chapters are included on Red Data plant species (with16 pages of colour), vegetation, the physicalenvironment, ethnobotany and medicinal plants, sacredgroves, the vertebrate fauna, invasive, alien and weedyplants, and the protected areas system.
Download or read book The Kew Record of Taxonomic Literature written by Royal Botanic Gardens (Kew). and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Journal of the Cameroon Academy of Sciences written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Tropical African Flowering Plants written by Jean-Pierre Lebrun and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The African Book Publishing Record written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Plants of Mt Cameroon written by Stuart Cable and published by Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Funded by DFID to aidconservation management on Mount Cameroon, The Plants of Mount Cameroondocuments all 2,435 plant species known to benative to this region and includes a Red Data chapter.Proceeds from the sales of this book go to the MountCameroon Project.
