Cameroon’s Ebo forest is one of the last remaining intact forests in Central Africa, and is host to some of the world’s most endangered primates including a geographically isolated population of western gorillas, Nigeria-Cameroon chimpanzees, drills and one of only two remaining populations of Preuss’s red colobus. The landscape and its wildlife are threatened by subsistence and commercial hunting, disease, industrial and artisanal logging, industrial agriculture, uncontrolled human settlement, and the illegal wildlife pet trade.
The Cameroon Biodiversity Association (an initiative of the San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance) collaborates with local communities to secure a sustainable, long-term future for the Ebo Landscape. Activities include capacity-building for staff, students, local communities, Cameroon-based institutions and civil society organisations, and promoting alternative livelihoods across the region. The project also works to understand and disseminate options for land tenure, forest valorisation and sustainable land management, while collaborating with government agencies and other civil society organisations to improve law enforcement.
Species Protected: Monkeys | Chimpanzee | Western Lowland Gorillas
© Cameroon Diversity Project
© Cameroon Diversity Project
© Cameroon Diversity Project
How Tusk works with Our Project Partners
We provide critical funding to enable our project partners to grow and increase their impact on habitat and wildlife, while also enabling, nurturing and supporting collaboration between them, for greater synergy and impact.
We help to increase awareness and wider support for our partners’ efforts, while also sharing important conservation messages, from the vital and varied roles of wildlife rangers, to the benefits of community-driven conservation, both within Africa and internationally.
Cameroon Biodiversity Association has been a Tusk partner since 2023.
This Project Makes a Difference Through…
Habitat Protection
Endangered Species Protection
Local Population Employed: 1,853
Area Protected: 20,000 ha
