Cameroon country profile

Lead Author: Maggie Surface (other articles)
This article has been reviewed and approved by the following Topic Editor: Lakhdar Boukerrou (other articles)
Last Updated: June 2, 2008

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Cotton bales ready for export from Cameroon. Farmers in developing regions face many challenges due to unfair global markets. (Credit: Mark Edwards/Still Pictures)
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Cotton bales ready for export from Cameroon. Farmers in developing regions face many challenges due to unfair global markets. (Credit: Mark Edwards/Still Pictures)

  1. General overview
  2. Water in Cameroon
  3. Energy in Cameroon
  4. Human Development Index
  5. Parks and Preserves:
    1. Dja Faunal Reserve
  6. Regional biodiversity hotspot (Guinean forests of West Africa)
  7. Ecoregions:
    1. Atlantic Equatorial coastal forests
    2. Cameroonian Highlands forests
    3. Central African mangroves
    4. Cross-Sanaga-Bioko coastal forests
    5. Mandara Plateau mosaic
    6. Mount Cameroon and Bioko montane forests
    7. Northern Congolian forest-savanna mosaic
    8. Northwestern Congolian lowland forests
    9. Sahelian Acacia savanna

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Surface, Maggie (Lead Author); Lakhdar Boukerrou (Topic Editor). 2008. "Cameroon country profile." In: Encyclopedia of Earth. Eds. Cutler J. Cleveland (Washington, D.C.: Environmental Information Coalition, National Council for Science and the Environment). [Published in the Encyclopedia of Earth June 2, 2008; Retrieved November 21, 2009]. <http://www.eoearth.org/article/Cameroon_country_profile>
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