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sp-2023-02-02-wetland-en.pdf Water. For too long this precious, life-giving resource has been taken for granted in so many places. In some parts of the world, it is easy to turn on a faucet and give no thought or consideration to where the water is coming from and who still lacks access to it. This…
Fisheye view of coral reef and divers. Photo: Wu, UN World Oceans Day Photo Competition
The Division for Ocean Affairs and the Law of the Sea of the Office of Legal Affairs of the United Nations (“OLA/DOALOS”), is now accepting applications for the 2023 session of the United Nations - The Nippon Foundation Strategic Needs Fellowship Programme. The objective of the United Nations – The…
cop15 équipe du Cameroun
Cameroon defends the urgency of a special financing mechanism for Biodiversity and the need for capacity building for all. In front of the members of Governments from all over the world present today at the High Level Segment of the second part of the COP 15, the Minister of Environment, Protection…
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The world's most important meeting on Biological Diversity opened on Wednesday, December 7 in Montreal, Canada, and has already started to move forward with a series of meetings and side events that will continue until December 19. Cameroon naturally prepared a mixed delegation headed by H.E. HELE…
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Introducing: ICP Connect Presenting ICP Connect: a new VLIR-UOS framework for ICPs. This aims to integrate global perspectives in a systematic way and strengthen partner countries and network dimensions into existing Master’s programmes. ICP Connect study programmes are accredited international…
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What is an ITP? International Training Programmes (ITP) are short to medium-term, intensive, interactive, and practical trainings organised at a university or university college in Belgium/Flanders. The trainings target participants from 31 scholarship countries with relevant professional experience…
First harvest of “manatee honey” at Lake Ossa
In May 2020, the AMMCO team met with one of the fishermen, converted to beekeeping, to collect the first liter of honey. Only one liter? The results seem meager but encouraging. Here is the story of the project. Beekeeping is one of the alternative activities to fishing launched by AMMCO with the…
15th rescue within one year
This part of Africa where AMMCO is situated is known generally for overexploitation of fisheries due to certain belief that the ocean is self-replenishing. This nonchalant act has rendered a lot of important species endangered. A notable example are the iconic sea turtle species. They are widely…
Gilles Etoga signs the deal on behalf of WWF Cameroon
Daphne, Salatiel, Mr. Leo and actress Laura Onyama join WWF as Champions for a New Deal for Nature and People A cream of very popular young Cameroonian artists has joint forces with the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) to raise their voices for the planet and champion calls for a New Deal for Nature…
People around the world invited to join in boosting momentum for most successful global anti-poverty push in history. With 1,000 days remaining to the end of 2015 – the target date for achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) – the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity is…