We would like to welcome ONE new conservation organisation member and a new corporate member to the Before It’s Too Late Conservation Community.
The new members are Cercopan which is fighting to save Africa’s largest remaining rain forest; and Bonjour Publication which through it’s magazines supports conservation efforts on three continents.
CERCOPAN
Cross River National Park Nigeria
The place with the highest number of primate species on the entire African continent is an ancient rainforest in South-Eastern Nigeria. CERCOPAN strives to conserve this forest and to protect its monkeys because both are highly threatened. For effective results, we provide education and practical options for the local communities so that their dependence on the forests becomes sustainable rather than destructive. While hunting threats remain, we provide sanctuary and individual care for orphan monkeys, progressing through their rehabilitation to reintroduction, in suitable cases, into the forest we protect.
Nigeria has already lost approximately 90% of its forests, and according to the FAO, the country has the highest primary forest deforestation rate anywhere in the world; approaching 20% per year between 2005-2010. Over half of the country’s remaining forest is located in Cross River State. Cross River National Park (Oban Division) includes 3,000 square kilometres of forest, and is the heart of the answer to long-term endangered species survival in the region. However, for as long as the communities that surround the Park do not recognize its boundaries, the protection the Park offers is entirely theoretical. CERCOPAN’s Forest Conservation programme, works with three neighbouring communities on the northwest periphery of the Park. The forests of these villages encompass 400 square kilometres. Each community has agreed voluntarily to a ban on commercial logging, primate hunting and other destructive practices in their forests and CERCOPAN provides support, training, education programmes and patrols to ensure compliance. CERCOPAN’s community-based conservation model provides the incentive that has brought about these agreements.
An even more ambitious initiative is to provide for total protection of all the community forests surrounding the Park through the United Nations REDD+ (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation) programme. Ambitious? Yes, but look at the results to date. Less than a handful of viable environmental conservation NGO’s operate in Cross River State, yet through our collective example and lobbying, the region’s environmental credentials have been transformed. A state-wide logging ban, vigorously enforced, has now been in place for over 4 years. In Oct 2011 the United Nations approved Nigeria’s REDD policy document, providing a $4M grant over two and a half years to build the support structures for a future full-scale REDD programme. One of the three pilot projects envisioned within the policy document incorporates the forests of Iko Esai and neighbouring villages to the North and South. But the implementation will be fraught with difficulties, and success will require flourishing NGO’s that can ensure impartiality, practicality, and dedication to the goals of conservation.
BONJOUR PUBLICATIONS
Bonjour was created through my experience of going to so many natural worlds where the beauty was incomparable. l believe that without these beautiful creatures, animals and places, we would not be able to fully enjoy our world the way in which we do. Bonjour is setting out to set a new standard in magazine publishing where paper is not just another medium, but is honoured as sacred because of the wondrous trees that must be used in it’s creation. So Bonjour magazine’s are committed to creating 98-100% paper free magazine’s in the most beautiful tangible, progressive and sustainable way possible. From the paper used for our yearly collectors editions (FSC Forestry Stewardship Council certified paper) to every other area we aim to create a sustainable platform in our procedures that has high respect for our natural world. We guarantee that this will always be the case and we will continue to develop Bonjour Publications on this platform. Bonjour are also committed to conserving the natural habitats and animals we so enjoy when we travel, so each of our magazine’s will support a nominated conservation charity group. So far we have three charities that we are committed to supporting, with $1 pledged from each magazine sold going to a conservation group within the country that our magazine’s feature.
In France we will support the LPO (through our South of France magazine). The LPO have been around for about 100 years protecting Frances’ endangered species from extinction and also their habitats.
In Australia we will be supporting The Australian Conservation Foundation through our Australia Travel magazine.
In Africa we will be supporting The Global White Lion Trust through our Africa Travel magazine.
And Bonjour will continue to add to this list as our publication expands. Bonjour are also committed to supporting the communities in these countries and are working with other lesser known charities such as Books for Sierra Leone to see how we can provide support whether it be monetary or in the development of these groups to further their cause.
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Welcome to New Conservation and Corporate Members ….
We would like to welcome ONE new conservation organisation member and a new corporate member to the Before It’s Too Late Conservation Community.
The new members are Cercopan which is fighting to save Africa’s largest remaining rain forest; and Bonjour Publication which through it’s magazines supports conservation efforts on three continents.
CERCOPAN
Cross River National Park Nigeria
Nigeria has already lost approximately 90% of its forests, and according to the FAO, the country has the highest primary forest deforestation rate anywhere in the world; approaching 20% per year between 2005-2010. Over half of the country’s remaining forest is located in Cross River State. Cross River National Park (Oban Division) includes 3,000 square kilometres of forest, and is the heart of the answer to long-term endangered species survival in the region. However, for as long as the communities that surround the Park do not recognize its boundaries, the protection the Park offers is entirely theoretical. CERCOPAN’s Forest Conservation programme, works with three neighbouring communities on the northwest periphery of the Park. The forests of these villages encompass 400 square kilometres. Each community has agreed voluntarily to a ban on commercial logging, primate hunting and other destructive practices in their forests and CERCOPAN provides support, training, education programmes and patrols to ensure compliance. CERCOPAN’s community-based conservation model provides the incentive that has brought about these agreements.
An even more ambitious initiative is to provide for total protection of all the community forests surrounding the Park through the United Nations REDD+ (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation) programme. Ambitious? Yes, but look at the results to date. Less than a handful of viable environmental conservation NGO’s operate in Cross River State, yet through our collective example and lobbying, the region’s environmental credentials have been transformed. A state-wide logging ban, vigorously enforced, has now been in place for over 4 years. In Oct 2011 the United Nations approved Nigeria’s REDD policy document, providing a $4M grant over two and a half years to build the support structures for a future full-scale REDD programme. One of the three pilot projects envisioned within the policy document incorporates the forests of Iko Esai and neighbouring villages to the North and South. But the implementation will be fraught with difficulties, and success will require flourishing NGO’s that can ensure impartiality, practicality, and dedication to the goals of conservation.
BONJOUR PUBLICATIONS
Bonjour was created through my experience of going to so many natural worlds where the beauty was incomparable. l believe that without these beautiful creatures, animals and places, we would not be able to fully enjoy our world the way in which we do. Bonjour is setting out to set a new standard in magazine publishing where paper is not just another medium, but is honoured as sacred because of the wondrous trees that must be used in it’s creation. So Bonjour magazine’s are committed to creating 98-100% paper free magazine’s in the most beautiful tangible, progressive and sustainable way possible. From the paper used for our yearly collectors editions (FSC Forestry Stewardship Council certified paper) to every other area we aim to create a sustainable platform in our procedures that has high respect for our natural world. We guarantee that this will always be the case and we will continue to develop Bonjour Publications on this platform. Bonjour are also committed to conserving the natural habitats and animals we so enjoy when we travel, so each of our magazine’s will support a nominated conservation charity group. So far we have three charities that we are committed to supporting, with $1 pledged from each magazine sold going to a conservation group within the country that our magazine’s feature.
In France we will support the LPO (through our South of France magazine). The LPO have been around for about 100 years protecting Frances’ endangered species from extinction and also their habitats.
In Australia we will be supporting The Australian Conservation Foundation through our Australia Travel magazine.
In Africa we will be supporting The Global White Lion Trust through our Africa Travel magazine.
And Bonjour will continue to add to this list as our publication expands. Bonjour are also committed to supporting the communities in these countries and are working with other lesser known charities such as Books for Sierra Leone to see how we can provide support whether it be monetary or in the development of these groups to further their cause.
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