A deep cry, save Mbonge Rainforest

The biophysical environment of the Mbonge Council area has been greatly tampered with
and exploited either for settlement, natural resources use or for agricultural purposes.
Farmers have exploited the hitherto primary forests and have turned them into secondary
forests or have created farms in almost all accessible and nearby land in all the villages.
Timber exploitation companies have also exploited timber from the primary forests in the
past, leaving behind remnants of secondary forests. Also large agro-industrial corporations
like the Cameroon Development Corporation (C.D.C) and PAMOL are continuing to put
down large areas of primary forest especially in the Mbonge Court Area to plant rubber, oil
palms and settlement camps to harbor their plantation labourers. Furthermore, trees are cut
down by individuals to construct houses, bridges and make furniture. It is no doubt that all
of these activities have been causing a lot of environmental hazards to the soils，roads, water
sources, climate and the biodiversity of the council biophysical environment which can
simply be described as degraded.