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

Figure 7: Land cover of Ndop Central Subdivision in 1988
Source: Mphoweh J.N. with information from satellite image of 1988

These activities on the wetlands mark a turning point in several values and functions of wetlands whose degradation simply took and upward trend.

This period corresponds to 39 years after 1963. Within this period of over four decades, several changes occurred on the wetlands of Ndop Central Subdivision. If a comparison is made on the surfaces presently covered by wetlands with those initially occupied (i.e. before and up to 1963), it will be observed that several changes have occurred within different land cover categories like farmlands ,rice fields, zones of habitation and communication network. Activities like rice cultivation which came into existence only during the 1970s, under the U.N.V.D.A. became very domineering The construction of the