Cameroon Priority Sites Four sites have been retained for Cameroon. The objective here is to analyze and evaluate the existing land-use mosaic at each site. Models will be developed and calibrated for each landscape mosaic. All three sites represent spots in a gradient of forest cover within the forest margins of Central Africa. The Nkometou site represents a largely degraded site with few pockets of forest left.
Land use is dominated by a sequence of short fallow and agricultural lands and cocoa agroforests.
The Akok site represents a site which is still dominated by large tracts of intact forest interspersed with fallow-agricultural lands around homesteads including cocoa agroforests. The Makak site is representative of an intermediate situation between the two above where oilpalm small-holder systems are the dominant perennial cropping system. The fourth site, Awae , was selected because it has been retained for research within the Inland Valley Consortium, an ecoregional intiative addressing wetland conservation and cultivation. There are ongoing characterization activities which include the interpretation of aerial photos. These high-resolution satellite data can be perfectly integrated into data analysis and be used for extrapolation to larger areas.