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Mbam et Djerem
Proportion of the area of the contribution comprising Key Biodiversity Areas: 25.2%
Mbam et Djerem National Park (MDNP) spans 4,165 km2 and is the largest forest-savanna protected area and National Park in Cameroon. MDNP is bordered by four logging concessions, a safari hunting zone, council forest, community forest, community hunting zones, and multiple uses areas, and lies approximately 20 km southeast of the Deng-Deng National Park. MDNP is a vital stronghold for forest elephants, with the healthiest population in northern Cameroon and the northernmost in Africa. The park is also a remaining stronghold for the Nigeria-Cameroon Chimpanzee, especially in the east, and home to three pangolin species. Despite its importance, MDNP faces significant threats to its integrity. These threats include poaching, both legal and illegal logging, habitat degradation due to shifting agriculture, and uncontrolled burning for grazing pasture, as well as infrastructure and extractive industry development in the surrounding areas.
Potential conservation benefits in saving biodiversity
Potential reduction of species extinction risk resulting from threat abatement actions
The chart below represents the relative disaggregation of the selected contribution's total potential opportunity for reducing global species extinction risk through taking actions to abate different threats to species within its boundaries. The percentages refer to the amount of the total opportunity that could potentially be achieved through abating that particular threat.