We’re working to ensure wildlife and wild lands thrive in modern Cameroon.
SPEF is out to Conserve Wildlife in the Cameroon landscape especially the threatened species in the Kimbi-Fungom National Park including and not limited to the critically endangered Nigeria Cameroon chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes ellioti ), the pangolins, and tortoise. These species are exploited in the park. We started the survey of chimpanzees in 2018, but it was halted, and are resuming the survey in 2022.
The most important aspect of the survey is to improve the indigenous knowledge of the recent fatal chimpanzee attacks in the park between 2020 and 2021. During this time the Nigeria-Cameroon Chimpanzee has killed one farmer, deformed the face of a motorbike rider, attack a herder, attack a farmer, and another motorbike rider. The indigenous communities in and around the park are deeply worried as such things have never happened in the past 100 years.
