Restoration of Logone River (Cameroon)
Waza-Logone Floodplain ranges over 8000 km2. It has the people with various businesses who base their lives there, and has rich biodiversity. However, after a dam to support the local economy and living was constructed, the natural functions of the floodplain were lost. The social and economic impacts of the lost floodplain were serious, loosing over 50 million dollars of basis for human life in the twenty years after the dam construction.
Approximately 8000 households suffered from the direct economic damages of over two million dollars a year, caused by the decreased dry-season grazing, fishing, yields of natural resource, and surface water supply. The suffered were mostly stock farmers, fishers, and dry-land farmers who represented the poorest and the weakest group in the region.
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Date: 2008.03.31 19:21
