Aerial Surveys of Wildlife and Human Activity Across the Bouba N’djida – Sena Oura – Benoue – Faro Landscape Northern Cameroon and Southwestern Chad
The aerial survey presented in this report represents the start of a new phase in the assessment and management of biodiversity and its threats across the landscape incorporating Bouba N’djida, Benoue and Faro National Parks (NPs) in northern Cameroon and Sena Oura in neighbouring Chad. Historical aerial surveys across this area have demonstrated the existence of an important elephant population and various other large mammal species such as giant eland, giraffe and buffalo (Omondi et al 2008). In the period