Cameroon country profile
Cameroon country profile
Source: CIA
Cotton bales ready for export from Cameroon. Farmers in developing regions face many challenges due to unfair global markets. (Credit: Mark Edwards/Still Pictures)
- General overview
- Water in Cameroon
- Energy in Cameroon
- Human Development Index
- Parks and Preserves:
- Regional biodiversity hotspot (Guinean forests of West Africa)
- Ecoregions:
- Atlantic Equatorial coastal forest
- Central African mangroves
- Mount Cameroon and Bioko montane forests
- Cross-Sanaga-Bioko coastal forests
- Cameroonian Highlands forests
- Northwestern Congoloan lowland forests
- Northern Congolian forest-savanna mosaic
- Guinean forest-savanna mosaic
- East Sudanian savanna
- West Sudanian savanna
- Mandara Plateau mosaic
- Sahelian Acacia savanna
- Lake Chad flooded savanna
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Citation
Maggie Surface (Lead Author);Lakhdar Boukerrou (Topic Editor) "Cameroon country profile". In: Encyclopedia of Earth. Eds. Cutler J. Cleveland (Washington, D.C.: Environmental Information Coalition, National Council for Science and the Environment). [First published in the Encyclopedia of Earth April 29, 2008; Last revised Date February 4, 2012; Retrieved February 9, 2012 <http://www.eoearth.org/article/Cameroon_country_profile>
The Author
Maggie Surface, originally from Nashville, TN, graduated in May of 2007 from Allegheny College with a double B.S. in physics and environmental studies. Her senior thesis at Allegheny focused on bringing solar energy to campus. She interned with American Rivers in the summer of 2006, helping plan River Lobby Day, and with the Meadville Area Local Growers and the Meadville Redevelopment Authority in the summer of 2005. Maggie served as the Earth Portal Program Coordinator for the National Counc ... (Full Bio)
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