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Fig. 3.16 Population pressures on Bonaberi and Douala mangroves with the construction of
houses (a) and roads (b)
of a yet more appropriate field. Many people who hoped to find the Eldorado in the
economic capital have in the rural exodus invests Douala. These people have acquired
housing inside mangrove areas and live in dire poverty (Fig. 3.17a).
One consequence of the great crisis in Cameroon in the 1990s, is an increase in
the solicitation of the mangroves of the Wouri river estuary. Thus, people who had
lost their jobs have returned to the mangrove ecosystem that showed no stress and
no protection. These people are converted in the extraction of sand, cutting and sellN. Din et al.
Fig. 3.16 Population pressures on Bonaberi and Douala mangroves with the construction of
houses (a) and roads (b)
of a yet more appropriate field. Many people who hoped to find the Eldorado in the
economic capital have in the rural exodus invests Douala. These people have acquired
housing inside mangrove areas and live in dire poverty (Fig. 3.17a).
One consequence of the great crisis in Cameroon in the 1990s, is an increase in
the solicitation of the mangroves of the Wouri river estuary. Thus, people who had
lost their jobs have returned to the mangrove ecosystem that showed no stress and
no protection. These people are converted in the extraction of sand, cutting and sellN. Din et al.