Environmental Degradation : MPs Indicted

Stakeholders met in Yaounde to get legislators interested in the conservation of the environment. The 1994 law laying down Forestry, Wildlife and fisheries regulation triggered the process of decentralization in natural resource management marked by transfer of powers and rights over natural resources and their ensuing benefits to peripheral actors, primarily the local communities. Sound environmental governance within the context of the newly defined model in environmental management seeks to enfranchise the voiceless majority by ensuring a shift in power and responsibility from central authorities towards the rural communities.