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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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  Photo 13: Installation of Basket traps which indiscriminately ‘sweep’ fish from streams.
         Foreground, A = position at which basket traps are put
        Background, B=Bamboo barrier, C= stream
        Source: Mphoweh J.N. Sept. 2005

Studies have revealed in this region that, these fauna species (most of which are today extinct) were the main factors of seed dispersal in this region. Palm species (like raphia, date and oil palms) were spread over this region thanks to seed dispersal through the medium of rodents, which transported their nuts and buried them under the ground in different locations. Studies by Zona and Handerson (1986) expressed the idea of fauna extinction as the root cause of the degradation of several West African palm species. Given that most of these palm species are wetland species, their non-regeneration in wetlands which have already been rendered fragile by other activities, goes a long way to exacerbate wetland degradation.

2.2.1.6. Transhumance                  
     
  Transhumance refers to the movement of cattle herdsmen with their cattle from the uplands to the plain in search of pasture during the dry season (Boutrais. J., 1974). The extreme temperature of the dry season leads to the total desiccation of hill slopes, which normally serve as grazing lands. With this situation, hill slopes are burnt to make way for greener pastures during the rainy season; meantime, grazers move to the wetlands which still contain fresh and luxuriant vegetation. This activity existed in this region earlier than the 1960s, engineered by the arrival of the Fulanis and the Aku through several migratory waves. Records of the number of cattle in Ndop at present are in the neighbourhood of 8185 cattle (MINEPIA, 2006), yet during the dry season, there is an influx of cattle from other regions making this number to some times supersede this record. Table 19 is a record of transhumance into the wetland of Ndop Central Subdivision.

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