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Wouri mangrove restoration and community resilience

Cameroon
Restoration, Conservation, Community
PL
Planète Urgence
France
Nonprofit

Planète Urgence is an international solidarity and development organization created in 2000 and recognized as serving thepublic good. It addresses social and environmental emergencies by placing humans at the heart of forest and biodiversityprotection. Planète Urgence develops an integrated approach to forest landscape restoration that combines reforestation,local development, and environmental education to restore degraded ecosystems, preserve biodiversity, strengthencommunity resilience, and offer sustainable economic alternatives. The organization works directly in the three major tropicalforest 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 (CameroonMangrove 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 estuarynear 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 rootcauses 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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Anne-Cécile RagotPlanète Urgence, France

Location

Cameroon