Wet Tropics: Africa
SIGNIFICANT ACCOMPLISHMENTS (2001-2005)
- External website for Wet Tropics Africa went live (2002) http://www.kew.org/scihort/wta/
- Publication of The Plants of Bali Ngemba Forest Reserve, Cameroon: A Conservation Checklist (incorporating Red Data treatments) (2004)
- Activities in western Cameroon extended to other provinces in Cameroon, Guinea-Conakry, Liberia, Ghana, Nigeria, Gabon and Congo-Brazzaville (2005)
- Funds secured to begin survey of the Simandou range and to set up a National Herbarium in Guinea-Conakry (2005)
- Publication of The Plants of Kupe, Mwanenguba and the Bakossi Mountains, Cameroon: A Conservation Checklist (incorporating 2,412 Red Data assessments) (2004)
- Collaboration in the PROTA (Plant Resources of Tropical Africa) Preparatory Phase (2000-2002) and First Implementation Phase (2003-2010)
- Flora of West Tropical Africa and Useful Plants of Tropical Africa made available electronically to Aluka (2005)
KEY ELEMENTS OF FUTURE PLANS (2006 onwards)
- Two more protected-area conservation checklists to be published (by end 2009)
- Expand total specimen database from 65,000 to 75,000 specimens (by end 2009)
- AETFAT (Association pour l'Etude Taxonomique de la Flore D'Afrique Tropicale) 2007, Cameroon, Yaoundé: assist in making a success (Feb 2007)
- Red list assessments for all vascular plant species (8,000-10,000) in Cameroon completed (by end 2009)
- Continue as a collaborating partner in the PROTA programme, and host the UK Country Office (2003-2010)