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Theme: THE DEGRADATION OF WETLANDS AND ITS SOCIO ECONOMIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL IMPLICATIONS IN NDOP CENTRAL SUBDIVISION, NORTH WEST PROVINCE CAMEROON

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Note should be taken also that it is a daily activity and the rate at which the vegetation regenerates in the dry season is slow. This makes grazers to keep on changing locations and destroying areas which still maintained their natural vegetation cover. These movements justify the degradation of large areas of wetland vegetation due to transhumance. This is evident in the works of Nkwemoh (199), Tanteh (2004), Koghan (2004) and Bongadzem C.S. (2007). The incidence of transhumance is seen as a major factor of change in the wetlands of the Ndop Central Sub-division. It does not only degrade the wetlands but is also leading to conflicts in the region.

2.2.1.7 Bush fires:
            This is common during the dry season, when plant stalks completely dry up. Some undergrowth in non-permanent swamps equally dry up. With the constant practice of burning dry grass under ridges (locally called ¨Menkereh¨); some areas accidentally go ablaze. Such events are common near raphia bushes which dried up during the dry season (see photo 15). It is not also uncommon today to find fires in the rainy season in the swamps. Such fire is as a result of the burning of maize and beans stalks in order to give way to rice cultivation. The combined effect of these is the release of smoke and heat which scare away fauna species and in some cases irreversibly destroys ligneous species which took several years to attain their sizes and dimensions. This is one of the main causes of destruction of wetland species like the raphia palm, Indian bamboo and date palms of Bamunka and Bamali (Mphoweh .J.N. 2006).

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