November 21, 2025

“VoNat Made Our Communities Part of Goliath Frog Conservation Solutions,” Mayor Njoume

“We are very happy with your approach. Since Voice of Nature (VoNat) came here in 2021, you have educated our youth. Many of them are now teaching some of us about amphibians. VoNat involved our children, our hunters, and our elders in identifying threats to the Goliath frog and other amphibians, strategies that we believe will work. That is the approach we truly value,” said Njoume Ebehezert Theophile, Chief of Ntolo Village and Deputy Mayor of Ebone Council, during a workshop for the participatory mapping of conservation solutions for the Goliath frog.  Read More 

Threatened Trees Domestication Through Madam Taba’s Eyes

When Madam Taba Grace of Bonakanda village in South West Cameroon received threatened tree seedlings from Voice of Nature (VoNat), she saw more than plants. In her hands were medicine, resilience, and the promise of a future where her community no longer depends on the rapidly depleting Mount Cameroon forest. Through her eyes, the domestication of Mount Cameroon’s threatened trees is not an abstract conservation goal, it is health, security, and hope. Read More

On a bright morning in Bangourain village in the Mount Mbam area, the Voice of Nature (VoNat) team, while carrying out conservation and climate actions, stumbled upon an unexpected sight, a young vervet monkey not in the forest where it is supposed to be but in the arm of a man with a rope around the waist. The owner explained that he had captured it as a baby two years ago from the riparian forest of the neighbouring Koumbam village. What seemed like affection, feeding and raising the animal, was in fact a snapshot of a much larger conservation crisis. Read More

More than 120 children and youth from communities around Mount Mbam have sparked renewed climate consciousness among local leaders and policymakers. This took place during a one-day workshop recently held in Bangourai, where the young participants showcased the environmental challenges affecting their communities. Through open letters, articles, drawings, rhymes, and poetry dramatizations, the EcoKids highlighted threats such as drying water sources, deforestation, bush burning, pollution, and excessive use of chemical fertilizers. Read More

Voice of Nature (VoNat) took part in the Cameroon Civil Society Conference 2025 , held in Buea on Saturday, November 8, 2025. The conference brought together representatives from over 20 Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) across the country to reflect on their roles in driving peace, development, and social change. VoNat’s Executive Director, Ndimuh Bertrand Shancho, represented the organization at this important gathering, which was convened by Ngang God'sWill of Royalty World under the theme: “Humanitarian and Development Work as Catalysts for Peace and Development.” Read More