Food Shortages

I was concerned to read that thousands of people in Cameroon's Far North province are suffering food shortages caused by grazing elephants trampling through their villages and destroying crops.

 

The elephants were forced to leave their usual grazing area in the Waza Park due to flooding, following the rainy season.  They therefore headed south in search of new grazing pastures and destroyed hundreds of hectares of farmland in the process.

 

Elephants have caused damage to crops in the province in the past but this year's destruction has been particularly severe.

 

 

Ruth Timson

Press Officer & Secretary