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1.1.3 SPECIES 1.1.3.1 DIVERSITY AND ABUNDANCE Cameroon has been reported to be comparatively rich in floral, faunal and microbial diversity (UNEP/MINEF 1999), (GEF 2008). In floral biodiversity Cameroon is second in Central Africa and fourth in Africa while she ranks fifth in faunal richness in Africa. It is known to contain 84% of known African primates, 68% of African passerine birds and 66% of African butterflies, (Groom, Bridge and Jenkins, 2000) and 9050 plants (Onana, 2008), 160 of them being endemic (WCMC, 1994). This makes the Guinea – Congolean Rainforest an important focal point for conservation in Africa. 1.1.3.2 VULNERABILITY Several investigators working in different parts of Cameroon have shown that plant and animal species in the country are highly vulnerable. Cheek et al (2004) working on the plants in the Kupe Mwaneguba and Bakossi Mountains categorized the 2412 taxa into 6 categories as shown below. . IUCN Classification on Species Vulnerability in Kupe Mwaneguba and Bakossi CATEGORY CR EN VU NT LC DD NUMBER OF 33 52 147 296 1497 1 TAXA CR: Critically Endangered NT: Near threatened EN : Endangered LC: Least Concerned VU: Vulnerable DD: Data Deficient Source: Cheek, M.( 2004) 1.1.3.3 INTRODUCTIONS AND MIGRATIONS Characteristically plants and animal species in Cameroon are of particular interest because of their specificities - abundance, diversity, adaptations, endemism, wide distribution, new discoveries, threats and recently extinctions. Ecological conditions have contributed to the survival of new plant and animal species which had been and are being introduced as exotics in the fields of agriculture, forestry, horticulture, arboriculture, animal husbandry and pisciculture. Several mechanisms lead to the introduction of species which can include Invasive Alien Species and other introductions by ships and planes, by wind, by water. 16
2 3 1 1. Filming of the Taiping Four chimpanzees on their return from South Africa; 2. Welcoming the “Taiping Four” on their arrival to Cameroon; 3. One of the Taiping Four feasting on arrival back home. Fig7. African Goshawk (Accipiter tachiro) Fig 6: The stolen chimpanzees “Taiping Four” arrived Cameroon from South Africa (Photo courtesy of Last Great Ape Foundation) While domesticated animals, insects and cultivable plants have been man introduced, bird, animal and insect species have found themselves in Cameroon through migratory habits. Birds have been recorded to escape the European winter for tropical Africa. Species of birds have been recorded as “rare” and “threatened” in Cameroon. The African Goshawk (Accipiter tachiro)(Fig 7) is threatened in the Takamanda Forest Reserve in the South West Province.. Wildlife species notably elephants in the Waza National Park of Cameroon have been found in neighboring Chad. Hunted antelopes and deers in the Korup National Park have been bound to escape into the neighbouring Cross River Park in Nigeria. Poachers from neighbouring countries have in many occasions been caught in Cameroon Protected Areas. Exploiters of non-timber products from Nigeria have been seen in Cameroon national territory. Huge quantities of chewing sticks species and the cattle sticks Carpolobia spp are regularly and clandestinely taken to Nigeria from the Takamanda Reserve, see Fig 8(Comiskey et al 2003) Fig 8: Hausa Cattle sticks (Carpolobia spp) from Takamanda Forest Reserve being unloaded at Ikom, Nigeria Photo courtsy of Terry Sunderland 1.1.3.4 MANAGEMENT FOR SUSTAINABLE USE Species stability, exploitation and control are usually subjected to international norms and regulations. Biodiversity managers have long been faced with the problem of regulating (especially products under exploitation) trans-boundary movements of such products. Among some of the reasons are trans-border village communities, usually sharing public facilities like markets, worship facilities, education establishments, and ceremonies. 17
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