Restoring Cameroon's Wouri mangroves
Cameroon
Restoration, Conservation, EducationPL
Planète Urgence
France
NonprofitPlanète Urgence is an international solidarity and development organization created in 2000 and recognized as serving the public good. It addresses social and environmental emergencies by placing humans at the heart of forest and biodiversity protection. Planète Urgence develops an integrated approach to forest landscape restoration that combines reforestation, local development, and environmental education to restore degraded ecosystems, preserve biodiversity, strengthen community resilience, and offer sustainable economic alternatives. The organization works directly in the three major tropical forest basins of the world—the Amazon, Congo Basin, and Borneo-Mekong Basin—where deforestation is most severe, biodiversity is most exceptional, and human vulnerabilities are greatest.
Project story
The CAMERR Project: Restoring Cameroon's Vital Mangroves
Mangroves are disappearing—and the communities that depend on them are suffering. The CAMERR Project (Cameroon Mangrove Ecosystem Restoration and Resilience) is changing that.
Over four decades, this ambitious initiative will restore 1,000 hectares of degraded mangrove ecosystems in the Wouri estuary near Douala. But restoration is only part of the story.
CAMERR takes a holistic approach:
Restoring ecosystems through active mangrove rehabilitation
Building awareness among local communities about mangrove preservation
Creating livelihoods through sustainable agriculture and fish smoking practices
Strengthening governance with improved legal frameworks and community-based management
By combining environmental restoration with economic opportunity and local empowerment, CAMERR addresses the root causes of mangrove loss. The result? Thriving ecosystems, resilient communities, and a model for conservation that works.
This is restoration that benefits both nature and people.
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Restoring Cameroon's Wouri mangroves
Cameroon
Restoration, Conservation, EducationPL
Planète Urgence
France
NonprofitPlanète Urgence is an international solidarity and development organization created in 2000 and recognized as serving the public good. It addresses social and environmental emergencies by placing humans at the heart of forest and biodiversity protection. Planète Urgence develops an integrated approach to forest landscape restoration that combines reforestation, local development, and environmental education to restore degraded ecosystems, preserve biodiversity, strengthen community resilience, and offer sustainable economic alternatives. The organization works directly in the three major tropical forest basins of the world—the Amazon, Congo Basin, and Borneo-Mekong Basin—where deforestation is most severe, biodiversity is most exceptional, and human vulnerabilities are greatest.
Project story
The CAMERR Project: Restoring Cameroon's Vital Mangroves
Mangroves are disappearing—and the communities that depend on them are suffering. The CAMERR Project (Cameroon Mangrove Ecosystem Restoration and Resilience) is changing that.
Over four decades, this ambitious initiative will restore 1,000 hectares of degraded mangrove ecosystems in the Wouri estuary near Douala. But restoration is only part of the story.
CAMERR takes a holistic approach:
Restoring ecosystems through active mangrove rehabilitation
Building awareness among local communities about mangrove preservation
Creating livelihoods through sustainable agriculture and fish smoking practices
Strengthening governance with improved legal frameworks and community-based management
By combining environmental restoration with economic opportunity and local empowerment, CAMERR addresses the root causes of mangrove loss. The result? Thriving ecosystems, resilient communities, and a model for conservation that works.
This is restoration that benefits both nature and people.
Project updates
Team
Location
Cameroon