In Cameroon many institutions are in charge of forests matters. In the 1980s, the forest sector was an intergral part of the Agricultural sector, and regulated by 1981 Forest Law and 1983 implementation Decree. The problem was not solved and it still remains unsolved. This was in a bid to have a more flexible and efficient body. Logging companies, individual loggers, Forest exploiters.
Individual loggers operate, usually enter into transactions with farmers for individual trees.
The first category comprises forest exploiters who are aware of the forestry law and the measures stipulated in the specification of the sombre law. The with-hold information contained in these specification notices from rural populations. The second category is made up of forest exploiters who try to apply the measures splet out in their specification notices. At the onset of exploitation activities these forest exploiters offer to the local populations, large sums of money which are by far lower than the amount that they would normally have been paid after exploiting. Given the intensive nature of their activities, these forest exploiters take a very short time to exploit a whole sale of standing volume.