Case Study: The Kilum Project, Cameroon
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- The Kilum project
- Summary of the Kilum project
- It aims to help both the environment and local people
- In 1991 they created boundaries beyond which no further deforestation could occur
- They promote sustainable ways for locals to gain income e.g. wood calving, honey farming, collecting herbs/plants to medicine
- Threats to the forest
- Over 60% of the country is covered in forest, most of which has been disturbed by, e.g, agriculture
- Cameroon's forestry sector is important to their economy - in 2011 it was worth 2.8% of their GDP
- Locals use bushfires to remove weeds from farmland, create grazing land and flush out small animals for hunting
- What is wood calving? Why is it sustainable?
- Wood calving: Locals create masks etc and sell them to other parts of the world
- One tree provides dozens of clavings
- They only use fast-growing trees and they plant a seed to replace it
- Wood chippings are collected for fires
- Summary of the Kilum project
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