Land tenure
The area has so far been protected by relative isolation but its biodiversity is now threatened by the encroachment of agriculture, unregulated bush meat hunting, logging, uncontrolled bush fires, road development, destructive mining operations by foreign companies and human population growth. Government agencies' lack of capacity to enforce environmental legislation increases the threat. Land tenure conflicts and ecologically destructive subsistence farming practices (slash and burn agriculture), exacerbated by poverty, also pose problems for the environment.