[2] The Rumpi Hills Forest Reserve (RHFR) is located at latitude 4°51′26″ N and longitude 9°07′15″ E in Ndian division, South West Region of Cameroon.

Finally, the West boundary goes through Dibonda and Ndian and Ituka to Lipenja which is also the starting point of the reserve.

This figure was found to be too high owing to the presence in the middle of the reserve of many hitherto unknown villages.

All these offshoots (new settlements) came from villages of Ngolo situated north of the reserve, in an area which was very thickly populated and therefore very heavily farmed.

[3] Recently, many villages have crossed into the forest land though they were allowed to hunt and fish with respect to the Wildlife Animals Preservation Ordinance, CAP.

The villagers also had rights to collect building poles and materials and fuel from Pycnanthus kombo (caraboard) and for all other trees except timber according to Forestry Ordinance No 38/37.

The villagers were also allowed the right to collect produce from existing farms within the reserve for a period of four years commencing from 1 April 1938.

[7][8][9] Aside from agriculture, other livelihood activities in the RHFR include the harvesting of non-timber forest products (NTFPs), animal rearing and petit trading mostly as off-season jobs when pressure on crop cultivation is reduced.

Gathered NTFPs include bush mango (Irvingia gabonsensis), bitter cola (Garcinia cola), njansang (Ricinodendron heudelotii), country onion (Afrostyrax lepidophyllus), bush pepper (Piper guineense), land snails (Archachatina marginata) and varieties of edible mushroom species.

Over 198 bird species have been identified, including the endangered white-throated mountain-babbler (Kupeornis gilberti), whitenecked pigeon (Columba albinucha) and green-breasted bush-shrike (Malaconotus gladiator).

Additionally, many tropical montane mammal, reptile and amphibian species such as the endangered Drill (Mandrillus leucophaeus), Forest shrew (Myosorex rumpii), Porcupine (Hystrix cristata) and Hairy frog (Trichobatrachus robustus) have been identified.