Liyong Emmanuel Sama

Field surveys on the medicinal wildlife species

of the North West Region of Cameroon, their usages and the means of acquisition

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book derives from the field survey component of a 2010 conservation project to promote the sustainable use of wildlife products in natural medicine. The study was conducted in North-West Cameroon to identify the wildlife species used in traditional medicine and how users acquire them. The model for the data collection was a questionnaire style interview. The objectives were: to establish whether medicinal wildlife products are used in natural medicine in the project site; to find whether these wildlife products were generally acquired by poaching or from the illegal wildlife trade; to identify how the unsustainable use of such wildlife resources contributes to the decline in population of large mammals in North-West Cameroon. The results of the study would lay the foundations for future conservation actions. Data was collected from 58 tradi-practitioners, who affirmed that 54 wild animal species are used in natural medicine for the treatment/prevention of 56 health problems. Of the 54 species identified 4 are large mammals already extinct in the study site, and several are in the IUCN Red List.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Éditions universitaires européennes
• Seitenzahl: 52
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. März 2018
• Französisch
• Abmessung: 220mm x 150mm x 4mm
• Gewicht: 96g
• ISBN-13: 9786202281485
• ISBN-10: 6202281480
• Artikelnr.: 62563662

Autorenporträt

Liyong Emmanuel Sama è nato nel 1962 in Camerun. Ha conseguito una laurea in gestione della fauna selvatica oltre a numerosi certificati nazionali e internazionali. La sua carriera nel campo della conservazione si estende per 35 anni, da guardiacaccia a conservatore di aree protette come funzionario pubblico, e dal 2010 come fondatore/coordinatore del CIRMAD per le attività delle ONG.