Fondation Camerounaise de la Terre Vivante

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Fondation Camerounaise de la Terre Vivante (FCTV) is an independent Cameroonian NGO, working to promote sustainable development and to facilitate solutions to the environmental problems facing Cameroon. FCTV started life in 1987 as Living Earth Cameroon programme, a key partner of Living Earth Foundation (UK). In 1996, the organisation formally registered as an Cameroonian NGO and in 2008, Living Earth Cameroon changed its name to Fondation Camerounaise de la Terre Vivante. The organisation remains a close partner of Living Earth Foundation and is an integral part of the wider Living Earth network.

Cameroon is a country immensely rich in biodiversity, with vegetation varying from the mangrove swamps on its southern Atlantic coast, to humid rainforests, and savannah grasslands, and the Sahel in the north. However its natural resources are under great threat from economic, political, environmental and social pressures. Deforestation, the loss of biodiversity, soil degradation, pollution, poverty, extreme seasonal floods and waste management in industrial and urban centres are just some of the environmental issues and problems facing Cameroon today.

Dja Biosphere Reserve, Cameroon

Living Earth has been working in Cameroon since 1987 and over the past two decades, Living Earth Foundation (UK) and Living Earth Cameroon have developed a number of projects focused on environmental education and community development. The purpose of the projects has been to both raise the awareness of the general public and decision-makers regarding the need to introduce environmental education in the schools system and to the wide public. We seek to encourage people to consider their impact on the environment, and to reduce or stop activities that deplete natural resources or threaten biodiversity in the region.

Our programmes can be broadly classed under three - overlapping - areas:

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FCTV Mission Statement:

‘To promote, facilitate and support community involvement in sustainable natural resource management in Cameroon, through capacity building, training, and the design, development and dissemination of Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) material and resources’.