Cameroon is considered one of the most important areas for conservation efforts due to it’s amazing nature and biodiversity. Cameroon’s depletion of natural resources goes hand in hand with poverty and its limited access to job opportunities and education.
In order to achieve long term solutions: we believe that a sustained environmental education program & landscape restoration through tree planting will help the new generations think differently about their natural resources.
How It Works
RUDEC’s efforts towards environmental sustainability first targets farmers particularly women and youths, we train them on improved farming techniques and we sensitize them to STOP bad farming habits such as bush burning.
We also carryout environmental education programs with specific focus on children for they are the future, we encourage children to plant trees for the future as their own contribution towards mitigating climate.
Work Done So Far
Since 2009, RUDEC enabled people from different communities to plant trees while economically empowering themselves. In this light, RUDEC has fostered the planting of over 1,300,000 trees Ornamental, Agro-forestry, Fruit and Food tree species in the Lake Barombi Mbo forest, Southern Bakundu forest reserve among others. These efforts were thanks to cooperation with local and international organizations like Trees for the future USA, and Nature Cameroon in our early days, and more recently with CIP, Friends of Cameroon USA among others.
In recent times, we are helping primary school children establish tree nurseries in schools.
RUDEC was awarded a certificate of recognition from UN Environmental Program ”Plant A Billion Tree Campaign” and another Certificate from One Tree Planted USA in 2021
