Etudes floristiques et ethnobotaniques dans un village de la zone forestiere du Cameroun: cas de NKolbibanda. Master Thesis. (In French).

Dongmo, D.M.

Abstract:

The study was carried out in the village of Nkolbibanda, located North- West of the Ottotomo forest reserve in the Ngoumou district, Mefou and Akono division. Its purpose is to evaluate plant biodiversity and to bring out the needs of local people concerning plant and land use systems (LUS).

The methods used were investigations near local informants for ethnobotanical data on one side and a random sampling following the method developed and tested by Sheil et al. within the framework of the floristic inventories on the other one. One hundred samples, distributed in all the LUS found in the village were taken, including 50 for herbaceous plants and 50 for trees and shrubs. The herbaceous were listed, just as the trees and shrubs with DBH equal to or greater than 10 cm.

The plants identified are distributed into 617 species, 378 genera and 111 families. The high values of the diversity indexes and the high specific richness reveal the trend of a high floristic diversity.

The cocoa-plantations, the marsh and the old fallow were revealed as being the most important LUS for local populations, from the diversity of products obtained and that of the activities undertaken in those LUS. The analysis of the uses of species mentioned on the IUCN red list of endangered species on one hand and the list of the species to be protected from the MINEP (former MINEF) on the other hand reveals that local populations do not contribute to the overexploitation of these protected species.

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