DEVELOPMENT OF THE FOREST RESERVE AND DEVELOPMENT CHALLENGES IN THE COMMUNITY OF BELABO AT EAST CAMEROON
DEVELOPMENT OF THE FOREST RESERVE AND DEVELOPMENT CHALLENGES IN THE COMMUNITY OF BELABO AT EAST CAMEROON

Summary/Abstract: Our research seeks to define whether this new development model, contriuting to increasing the investment capacities of the municipality and the transfer of power from a central level to a local level, can constitute a framework for sustainable and participatory management and to evaluate the socio-economic environment of the villages bordering the Deng Deng forest reserve, transferred to the commune of Belabo. The forest plays a crucial role in physical and physiological, and previously biological, purification of air and water. Human health ultimately depends on society's ability to manage the interaction between human activities and the physical environment. The plant absorbs C02 for the photosynthesis reaction to take place (which it needs for its survival), releasing oxygen. The gas destroying oxygen is at this level absorbed by the plant, it slows down, reduces the effects of this harmful gas from the atmosphere. Let's remember that in places where there are no plants, C02 will quickly pass or release into the atmosphere to initiate the greenhouse effect phenomenon. The living being needs oxygen for its survival, without this substance man cannot live, it therefore helps him for his survival. Man also releases a little C02 in the absence of forests; humanity would suffer because it fights effectively against the perverse effects of global warming. The Belabo forest reserve allows for better management of altitudinal stratification. The forestry management of large concessions and that of small community forests, certain municipalities in Cameroon like Belabo have recently embarked on the sustainable management of forests handed over to them by the State. These communal forests represent an intermediate forest development between these two types of concessions. A development plan is drawn up and participatory management must be carried out in order to take into account the uses and interests of local populations.

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