The International Centre for Environmental Education and Community Development, ICENECDEV, is mobilizing forces to fight against deforestation on Mount Cameroon.

To launch the fight, ICENECDEV organised a two-day training workshop with the goal to reduce the rate of deforestation on Mount Cameroon that contributes to climate change and extinction of wildlife.

The workshop had as project title: “Training- the-Trainers on Forest Conservation in Cameroon” at which institutional capacities of thirty community leaders on conservation practices through ecotourism, agro- forestry, beekeeping and the production of fuel-efficient stoves, on the Mount Cameroon forest region.

The knowledge and skills acquired during the workshop is intended for income-generating activities in the fields of ecotourism, agro-forestry, beekeeping and the production of fuel-efficient stoves so that socio-economic livelihood in the forest region could be improved.

The members who represented their various groups during the workshop were to take back the knowledge learned to their various communities through outreach and environmental education in schools where there are expected to preach against poaching and reduce dependency on wood consumption.

Speaking at the workshop, the Coordinator of ICENECDEV, Eric Fongoh, reiterated that civil society organisations, youth groups, associations and the |Government are more of collaborators and partners in development, rather than competitors as is the case of some regions in Cameroon.

He equally thanked some international and home base organisations like Bee for Development UK, Technical Centre for Agriculture and Rural Cooperation (CTA) Netherlands, Borstal Institute Buea, among others, for their technical and material support in the fight against deforestation on Mount Cameroon.