Bakossi Forest Reserve

[2] The Bakossi Mountains, which include Mount Kupe, cover in total about 230,000 square kilometres (89,000 sq mi), with perhaps the largest area of cloud forest in West-Central Africa.

[3] They are part of a larger tract of forest that extends northward into the western foothills of the Bamboutos Mountains.

[1] Between 2003 and 2007, the effectiveness of management in this and other parks improved greatly, although the local people were not well integrated into the system, and lacked education and awareness of environmental goals.

[5] The red ironwood tree (Lophira alata), known locally as the azobé, is endemic to the forest, and has suffered greatly because of illegal logging.

However, since 1994, on Mount Kupe the drill population has started to recover due to protection from the Bakossi traditional chiefs.