CAMEROON AND WWF INTERNATIONAL PROJECTS


Effects of the Ivory Ban

A
n evaluation of the effects of the ivory ban was carried out. It was found that in general, poaching has decreased although there was evidence in some areas of an increase in elephant poaching for meat. The price of ivory had decreased everywhere. However, this brought it within the reach of new consumers.

Emergency Action for Elephant Monitoring and Control

This ODA funded project provided emergency funds for the satellite collaring and aerial survey of a marauding elephant population of some 500 animals which caused extensive damage to crops and killed five persons. The project provided essential information on elephant distribution and movements which permitted rational control measures and a management plan to be drawn up. WWF also examined the effectiveness of other deterrents such as electric fencing, broadcasting elephant distress calls over loudspeakers, and spraying crops with a red pepper extract which elephants do not like.

International Projects 9Z0556 and 9Z0460

These projects investigated Biodiversity Prospecting and Intellectual Property Rights. These questions became crucial during the discovery and early exploitation of the liana Ancistrocladus korupensis. Legal and other issues are being investigated.

The WWF­Cameroon Programme Office also sponsored a workshop on Community Forest and Protected Area management. The workshop, held in Yaounde in 1993, was very successful



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