News in Cameroon

In the past Cameroon is have a problem with elephant extinction in their forest. Well now its just getting worst. There are only 2% in captivity, and the rest are out in the wild. Poachers are killing all these elephants that are in the northern part of Cameroon, and the southern part of Niger. A protective program in Cameroon it doing its job of trying to get all the elephants in to captivity and stop the poachers from killing the elephants. The program is trying to make a law for not killing the elephants. Also Cameroon is trying to make a national wildlife park for the elephants.

I think that if the program is trying to make these laws then the projected for saving the elephants will go good. If the Cameroon government declines the law then you could say bey to the elephants in Cameroon. Also they should move the captivity to were the elephants are. This project will all depend on the governments designed on the law or not.

Money In Cameroon

The CFA covers those African countries whose currencies are linked with the French Franc at a fixed rate of exchange. (African Financial Community)
The U.S. dollar is worth a lot more money than the CFA money in Cameroon. Just think what they would do with one dollar

2009 Holidays In Cameroon

1 Jan New Year's Day, 11 Feb Youth Day, 9 Mar Eid Milad Nabi (Prophet's Anniversary), 10-13 Apr Easter, 1 May Labor Day, 20 May National Day, 21 May Ascension / Sheep Festival, 20 July Ascension of the Prophet, 15 Aug Assumption, 1Oct. Unification Day, 21 Sep. Djoulde Soumae (End of Ramadan), 28 Nov Eid Al Adha (Festival of Sacrifice), 18 Dec Hijra (Islamic New Year),25 Dec Christmas.

Cameroon has some of the same holidays as us in the U.S. but Cameroon has a lot of their own holidays also. They have many different types of religion holidays.

Culture In Cameroon

The culture of Cameroon is very interesting and unique in many ways. The culture of Cameroon has over 130 ethnic groups. There are five main ones in Africa today. They are Bamileke, Bamoun in the west, Fulani and Kirdi in the north, and Ewondo which is around Yaounde. The group of Bamileke is the most populous group in the west. The Bamileke has taken up much of Cameroons economy.
There are many different religious groups in Cameroon too. There are Islamic, Jewish, Christians
There are two main languages in Cameroon, English and French. French is the main language in large cities. Among most of the languages in Cameroon, the five major ones are Bamileke, Ewobdi, Bamoun, Fulfulde and Arabic.

Cameroon's Wildlife

National Parks
Cameroon has a number of national parks created with the intention of protecting wildlife. In many parts of Africa it is said the tourists outnumber the animals. Not so in Cameroon, where visitors are limited, and the parks are going extinct.

Here are some of the parks:
Waza National Park- in the North covers an area of 170 000 hectares, and is home to the "big five" animals of Africa. Safaris are conducted there by several companies, and visitors can see the animals roam free in near pristine conditions.

Benoue National Park- covers 180 000 hectares, and features a wide frontage to the Benoue River. It has large numbers of buffalos, elephants, lions, water buck, warthogs, monkeys, crocodiles, and is well known for it's hippopotamus colonies.

Boubandjidda National Park- covers 220 000 hectares, and is the most remote , and beautiful, being located on the border with Chad. It is home to the black rhinoceros and antelope. Lions roam freely throughout the area. Dinosaur fossils are also located in the park.

Korup National Park- this parks covers a huge area of virgin rainforest close to the Nigerian border. It is unique in that it is the subject of a living experiment in the human & nature are living together. Korup is home to the Bioresources Development and Conservation Plan. This program was established at the Rio Earth Summit in 1992. The group consists of a group of scientists, industrialists, environmentalists, local people, and policy experts interested in the link between conservation of tropical rainforest, commercial development, and human coexistence within the rainforest.

Cameroon is home to the Lowland Gorilla. It is not widely known that Gabon and Cameroon are home to the Lowland gorilla, and these beautiful animals are fiercely protected by the tribes that live in the region of the gorilla habitat. In Cameroon the location is between Sangmelima and the Gabon/Congo borders. Gabon has recently moved to take advantage of the numbers of people wanting to visit gorilla colonies. People are trying to make a national park were the gorillas live.


About Camaroon and their national parks
It is a non government organisation, but receives support from a number of governments including the U.S.A. and France.

Cameroon is home to over 200 different ethnic and linguistic groups. The country is well known for its native styles of music, particularly makossa and bikutsi, and for its successful national football team. English and French are the official languages.

Early inhabitants of the territory included the Sao civilisation around Lake Chad and the Baka hunter-gatherers in the southeastern rainforest. Portuguese explorers reached the coast in the 15th century and named the area Rio dos Camaroes, the name from which Cameroon derives. Fulani soldiers founded the Adamawa Emirate in the north in the 19th century, and various ethnic groups of the west and northwest established powerful chiefdoms and fondoms.

Cameroon became a German colony in 1884. After World War I, the territory was divided between France and Britain as League of Nations mandates. The Union des Populations du Cameroun political party advocated independence but was outlawed in the 1950s. It waged war on French and Cameroonian forces until 1971. In 1960, French Cameroun became independent as the Republic of Cameroun under President Ahmadou Ahidjo. The southern part of British Cameroons merged with it in 1961 to form the Federal Republic of Cameroon.

Climate

The climate varies according to the region. In the south, the dry season runs from November to February, the little rainy season from March to June and the big rains come between August and September. The average temperature is 79°F (26°C). The tropical coastal areas receive a lot of rain that can reach in excess of 30ft (9m). In the north the rainy season is spread out from May to the end of September, but receives very little over the year and drought is a way of life in the far north.