Bamenda highlands
Coordinates: 6 ° 25 ' N , 10 ° 45' E
The Bamenda highlands , also known as Bamenda Banso highlands , are located in western Cameroon and encompass most of the province of North East , whose metropolis is the city of the same name, Bamenda . The southern and southwestern areas of the highlands are known in social geography and cultural terms as the Cameroon grasslands .
The highlands stretches along the Cameroon line from the Bambouto massif to the Ngaoundere plateau . The western and northern foothills of the highlands form the Obudu and Mambilla plateau in Nigeria . The highest point of the highlands is the volcanic mountain range Oku , which is up to 3,011 m high and contains the world-famous lakes Nyos , Oku and Manoun . The Bamenda highlands rose from the earth's crust about 34 million years ago as a result of the formation of the Central African Rift and is dotted with numerous calderas , such as the Lefro and Santa Mbu caldera in the Bamenda mountains .
The Bamenda highlands are of great ecological importance, as they are home to the last larger contiguous mountain rainforests in West Africa with a large variety of animals and plants. There are around 15 endemic birds , 40 endemic plants , 11 endemic reptiles and amphibians on the highlands . In the highlands, populations of the primates of the chimpanzee ( Pan ) and the endangered drill ( Mandrillus leucophaeus ) are also known. However, the rainforests have been severely fragmented in the last century, so that the approximately 20,000 hectare Kilum-Ijim Forest forms the largest contiguous section and has been designated as a nature reserve. The shrew species Sylvisorex silvanorum was last discovered in the rainforests of the Bamenda highlands .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Save the Rainforest ( Memento from August 12, 2011 in the Internet Archive ). Publication of the society for techn. Cooperation, 1995 (PDF file; 332 kB).
- ↑ Michaela Pelican: Women's and Men's Friendships in the Cameroon Grasslands: A Comparative Approach . In: Spektrum , Volume 39/2004, Institut für Afrika-Kunde Hamburg, pp. 63–93 (PDF file; 121 kB).
- ^ Marlies Leonhardt: Masks in the Cameroonian Grasslands (German) (PDF file; 402 kB).
- ↑ RU Ubangoh, IH Pacca, JB Nyobe: Palaeomagnetism of the continental sector of the Cameroon Volcanic Line, West Africa . In: Geophysical Journal International , Volume 135, Issue 2, pp. 362-374 (English).
- ↑ M. Gountié Dedzo, E. Njonfang, A. Nono, P. Kamgang, G. Zangmo Tefogoum, A. Kagou Dongmo, DG Nkouathio: Dynamic and evolution of the Mounts Bamboutos and Bamenda calderas by study of ignimbritic deposits (West-Cameroon , Cameroon Line) ( Memento of the original from May 12, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . In: Syllabus Review , Sci. Ser. 3/2012, pp. 11–23 (English) (PDF file; 1.4 MB).
- ^ Anne Gardner: Community forestry in the Bamenda Highlands region of Cameroon: a partnership for conservation ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . FAO publication (PDF file).
- ^ Rainer Hutterer , Jan Riegert, Ondřej Sedláček: A tiny new species of Sylvisorex (Mammalia: Soricidae) from the Bamenda Highlands, Cameroon . In: Bonn zoological contributions , Volume 56, Issue 3, September 2009, pp. 151–157 (PDF document; 354 kB).
