Title
Development of a trinational system of conservation: A ten-year perspective
Author(s)
Fay, J. M.
Published
1998
Abstract
The history of the previous decade concerning the trinational conservation area development in the Sangha River region can be described in basic terms. The first action taken toward the goal of regional conservation was the establishment,with modest means and funds, of the Dzanga-Sangha protected area in CAR. Some years later, the Nouabalé-Ndoki National Park was established, adjacent to Dzanga-Sangha, in northern Congo. Both parks were established on the same principles: forest preservation and wildlife conservation. Protection of the third area, Lobéké in Cameroon, is still awaited and may benefit from the support of a “patron.” A decade after this initiative began, we find ourselves today on the same path. Funding, NGO interest, government support, and good collaboration with local communities have all emerged from this process. Failures, however, have included not acting in a timely fashion, continued human demo-graphic problems, marginalization of Pygmy communities despite the obvious need for special consideration, control of logging activities, and not yet completed trinational conservation. A Sangha River Reserve extending along a 35 km stretch of the Sangha River and incorporating Congo, CAR, and Cameroon protected areas is the next step.

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