s:1453:"%T Achieving customary-statutory rights compromise in Cameroon's forest & wildlife policies: extending forest benefits sharing to communities living in wildlife protection zones and to indigenous groups in Cameroon 
%A Mbile, P. 
%A Okon, D. 
%X To-date forest fees and royalties due forest zone  communities are tied to timber concessions not  parks or are inadvertently contingent on the  presence of conventional chieftaincies. Both policy  results disfavour communities whose customary  lands have been taken up by parks and racial  minorities who have not naturally evolved  conventional chieftaincies.  These situations need to be changed because they  fall short of the constitution of the Republic of  Cameroon which resolves to; harness all natural  resources to ensure the well-being of every citizen  without discrimination; to raise living standards  and uphold their right to development; affirming  that all citizens have equal rights and obligations  and the State commits herself within the  possibilities of her laws and resources to provide all  conditions necessary for human social  development. There is need therefore within the current review  of forest and wildlife policies for reasonable  compromise to be reached based on terms  negotiated by affected communities themselves to  minimize these injustices while ensuring long term  biodiversity conservation and good social relations  between all races in the forest zone 
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