Cameroon: Expanding Cameroon’s Successful Green Militarisation Strategy to Protect Elephants

The global demand for ivory is driving heavily armed poachers from Chad and Sudan into Cameroon’s Bouba Ndjida National Park.

Poaching threatens the survival of savanna elephants in Central Africa. Over the past two decades, the Monitoring the Illegal Killing of Elephants programme has recorded 3 004 elephants illegally killed in this region. In April 2023, several elephants were killed in Chad’s Beinamar area, close to the Cameroon border, sparking concerns about a potential resurgence of…