Environmental Problems in the Bakossi Landscape: A Handbook for Environmental EducatorsWritten in simple and straightforward language, Environmental Problems in the Bakossi Landscape is a practical handbook of knowledge and skills needed to be more efficient in sensitising and taking practical steps to address environmental problems. Although the handbook focuses on the seven environmental problems of the Bakossi Landscape, its depth and breadth of analysis and the deliberate attempt at not making it too site-specific in the discussion of the problems makes it equally useful for Environmental Clubs of schools in other areas, as well as other community educators interested in environmental issues or environmental education. The ultimate aim of the book is in assisting all and sundry make the world a better place by being more sensitive to the needs, sensibilities and sensitivities of the environment. |
Contents
1 The Bakossi Landscape | 1 |
2 Deforestation | 5 |
3 Soil Erosion | 13 |
4 Land Degradation | 17 |
5 Wildlife Scarcity | 23 |
6 Species Extinction | 31 |
7 Water Pollution | 35 |
8 Water Scarcity | 41 |
9 Summary and Conclusion | 45 |
Bibliography | 49 |
Acknowledgements | 50 |
Work Programme | 51 |
Back cover | 55 |
Common terms and phrases
already areas Bakossi Landscape Bakossi Site Muanenguba Bamenda biodiversity biomass blue duiker Bororo Buea Bushmeat carbon dioxide Causes and underlying chemicals chimpanzee Coastal Forests Programme communities Definition and scale deforestation Degradation Wildlife Scarcity Drama e.g. Ekpe Inyang endemic Environmental Clubs Environmental education environmental problems Erosion Land Degradation forest products giant pangolin Habitat destruction handbook Ignorance Impacts and potential Impacts of Water important increased Kupe and Muanenguba Kupe Bakossi Muanenguba Kupe Bush Shrike lakes Land Degradation Wildlife Landscape 0 Kupe Loss of biodiversity low agricultural Major causes Mankon Mount Kupe Bush Muanenguba sites natural beauty natural vegetation Observed Impacts order of severity over-hunting overgrazing picture Pollution Water Scarcity potential solutions potto poverty Rank/Score in order Scarcity Species Extinction serious shifting cultivation situation Soil Erosion Land streams and rivers Study of chapter traditional knowledge trees underlying issues water bodies Water catchments destruction water-borne diseases wildlife resources Wildlife Scarcity Species WWF Coastal Forests