Tubah Council has received over 16,000 trees from a reforestation project funded by the European Union aimed at water preservation.
These trees were received by the Mayor of Tubah Council, Tanjong Martin on behalf of the Municipality on June 4,2021 at the council premises in the presence of the Tree Project Council focal person Mr. Nsaboh Nelson,Traditional Authorities such as the Lamido of Sabga, the Fon of Bambui, and Water scheme managers from all over Tubah Municipality were all present. In turn, he symbolically handed over these trees to the managers of the water schemes to symbolize shared responsibility between the Council and all communities in the reforestation of Tubah.
Promoting improved governance of sustainable natural resource management
This project dubbed the “1400 Project “has as its general objective to promote improved governance of sustainable natural resource management in Cameroon’s forests. It is being implemented by the
Association of Council Forest of Cameroon (AFCAM) and the Technical center for Council Forest (CTFC) . The Council gets 14,000 forest seedlings and 2100 fruit seedlings which are distributed among the water
management schemes of Kedjom Ketinguh, Kedjom Keku, Finge, Bambui, Bambili and Sabga. These management schemes will nurse and grow water friendly trees around water catchments to preserve soil water and protect the catchments from animals and human activity. This activity falls into the second phase of the project and is budgeted for 12.4 million francs with 5.7 million from AFCAM and 6.7 million from Council Contributions.
Mayor Tanjong Martin
This project was awarded to Mayor Tanjong in 2017 during his visit to France. The first phase was the establishment of orchards in main villages making up Tubah and that phase is still ongoing due to hitches from the Anglophone crises. The water scheme managers are committed to making this second phase run hitch free by communicating its importance as much as possible and involving the Community at every stage of the process.
