Rapport final suivi ecologique - Impact monitoring of Forest ...
Rapport final suivi ecologique - Impact monitoring of Forest ...
Rapport final suivi ecologique - Impact monitoring of Forest ...
- No tags were found...
Create successful ePaper yourself
Turn your PDF publications into a flip-book with our unique Google optimized e-Paper software.
MINFOF, research or training institutions, conservation projects and non-governmentalorganisations working on ecological <strong>monitoring</strong>. The information collected was analysedand used in the drafting <strong>of</strong> a report that was submitted in several steps <strong>of</strong> validations.Before presenting the methodological guide, the introductory parts <strong>of</strong> the documentreview the conceptual framework, stressing on the definition <strong>of</strong> key concepts and ecological<strong>monitoring</strong> systems being implemented in Cameroon. It was noticed that several ecological<strong>monitoring</strong> systems were drawn up within the framework <strong>of</strong> conservation projects beingimplemented in some protected areas in Cameroon, in which only some parts are sufficientlydocumented.The areas concerned with this study are mainly wildlife protected areas. They wereclassified in 3 categories: Those with a relatively elaborate ecological <strong>monitoring</strong> system(e.g. the Campo Ma’an, Benoue, Boumba-Bek, Nki, Mbam and Djerem, Waza, and KorupNational Parks, and the Dja biosphere reserve), those where basic studies have been carriedout but which do not have an ecological <strong>monitoring</strong> system (e.g the Manenguba, Douala-Edea, Kagwene, Takamanda, Bakossi, Bayang-Mbo and Mengame National Parks), andthose where basic information is absent (e.g. Mbere Valley, Mpem and Djim, Kalamaloué,Mozogo-Gokpro and “Mefou” National Parks, Santchou reserves, Lake Ossa, Kimbi andMount Oku). It can be noticed that all these protected areas have not always received thesame degree <strong>of</strong> attention from conservation partners.The main ecological <strong>monitoring</strong> systems being tested in Cameroon have beenpresented in a table, and classified according to the following groups: Vegetation andhabitat, wild animal species, environmental conditions and human factors. This section endswith an analysis <strong>of</strong> the systems being tested and sorts out priority actions for ecological<strong>monitoring</strong> in Cameroon – the need to consider the impact <strong>of</strong> activities being carried out onbiodiversity conservation as well as the well-being <strong>of</strong> communities. Very few conservationprogrammes deal with <strong>monitoring</strong> socio-economic trends to ensure their correlation with theevolution <strong>of</strong> biological potentials, which should preoccupy the “conservators” in future.Otherwise, the principle <strong>of</strong> community participation will be questionable. The ecological<strong>monitoring</strong> system must lay emphasis on the spatio-temporal dynamics <strong>of</strong> large animals,which are the component <strong>of</strong> biodiversity most threatened by human activity (hunting) andmost sensitive to the various degradations <strong>of</strong> natural habitats.There is a discrepancy between the aim <strong>of</strong> gathering available documentation onCameroon protected areas and the rest <strong>of</strong> findings in this study and will be presented as anindex in a separate volume. It should be noted, however, that 1780 references werecatalogued in sixteen sites that were visited during this study.The main chapter covers the methodological guide. It is arranged in a way as toregroup the required elements to present the natural factors <strong>of</strong> the milieu, emphasizing onclimatic factors, a <strong>monitoring</strong> <strong>of</strong> the vegetation and fauna, a presentation <strong>of</strong> anthropogenicfactors <strong>of</strong> the milieu while emphasizing not only on the <strong>monitoring</strong> <strong>of</strong> activities <strong>of</strong> resourcesexploitation but also on a follow-up <strong>of</strong> the management <strong>of</strong> protected areas. In each part, themeasured parameters and their importance are highlighted, followed by a section on how tomeasure them, and <strong>final</strong>ly, some tools and necessary resources for <strong>monitoring</strong> theseparameters are presented. Among other tools, the document stresses on chart modelsrequired for data collection, apparatuses and instruments for data collection in the field and,devices and programmes for treating specific data. The <strong>monitoring</strong> <strong>of</strong> animal species is thebasis for ecological <strong>monitoring</strong> programmes applicable in protected areas (bio-<strong>monitoring</strong>).It is based on various methods for sampling animal species. Data are processed to producemaps and other useful information. For the <strong>monitoring</strong> <strong>of</strong> large and medium-sized mammals,xii