cameroon fourth national report - Impact monitoring of Forest ...

• Information on implementation should be participative and as much as possible
come from the rural masses. It should take the bottom-top approach.
In order to systematize and obtain a reliable data-base on the country’s biodiversity
information, the following measures are recommended. (Solbrig 1991).
- Organize series of workshops to recommend basic sampling methods for various
taxa, so that data collected on the same groups will be comparable. Each workshop
should focus on a given taxon or discipline (e.g arthropods, plankton, fungi, soil
micro-organisms soils macro-organisms, trees, fishes, birds, mammals, insects
etc.).
- Geographical and taxonomically based questionnaire requesting information from
specialists about the best sites for monitoring should be sent to all working
systematists.
- A workshop on special techniques to estimate species richness is required. Both
statistical and calibration-multiplication methods should be considered.
Participants should include systematists, ecologists and statisticians.
- A National Biodiversity Committee and National Biosafety Authority should be
set up which will be responsible to collect, centralize, approve and disseminate
updated data in all areas of biodiversity in Cameroon.
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