Nature Protection: How the Lack Of Effective Implementation of laws on Wild Life and Nature conservation in Cameroon is Promoting Climate Change Injustice

Forest, wild life and Nature conservation Laws or reforms in Cameroon are Yet to be Strictly Enforced

Cameroon has one of the best laws on nature conservation and protection proposed summarily by the Ministry of Forestry and wildlife voted by parliament and fairly implemented by forest guards and officials of urban development and environment.

This is because of too much laisse faire and the lack of enforcement measures or effective follow up mechanism to over see the rigorous control and monitoring of uncultured actions   to nature’s gifts and environment.

The units and brigades, forest check posts and agents are all there but the work is not effective because of corrupt road side or check point practices or services. That is why the rain forest around the Littoral Region of Cameroon is almost rendered bare by clandestine timber merchants, yet we have forest guards all over and laws controlling the felling of trees. By doing so, the surface area of the forest reserve is rendered bare, and the routine and regular rain falls in this area is altered or hampered seriously.

Coming to the North West Region there is serious outright tree felling in Awing, Mendankwe and Oku, for firewood, coal and wood works. Serious wood business has emptied all the forest reserves of the Region, and their precious gifts to the detriment of water resources, games, the environment and climate or weather.

Urban development and it’s unstructured plan, plus bad water drainage patterns and the lack of a proper waste disposal plan or system, poses as a major problem or threat in most Cameroon cities caused by neglect and the lack of effective control. Not to talk of those building in danger risks zones because of land exhaustion and the lack of space  at the mercy of all type of land slides and unprecedented deaths. The 2019 land slide in the  West Region that took away almost 50 lives at once, is a living example. The countless accidents along Dschang, Melong stretch because of weather are typical examples, cases or situations that has arose from the non respect or the strict or rigorous implementation or the enforcement of laws on nature and the environment to safeguard mankind.

The laws are there to control nature’s gifts and exhaustion, plus man’s excesses but not well implemented or enforced.  Hence, equity, amnesty and justice is not done to weather or nature. What certainly leads to  climate change imbalance or injustice.