Sekakoh seeks to promote biodiversity conservation through community participation, research, and training to create a just and equitable world where resources are managed sustainably and profitably.
Mission
Actions
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Supporting community development and education
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Law enforcement in protected areas
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Forest monitoring, habitat restoration and agroforestry
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Training on alternative livelihoods
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Wildlife and socio-economic research
History
Sekakoh originates from the Ellioti Project, initiated by Osiris Doumbe (IUCN SSC Great Apes member) with Denis Nyugha, to survey the distribution of Nigeria-Cameroon chimpanzees and other primates in North-West Cameroon (2011-2014) and engage communities through sensitization and school-based environmental education. The rich results led to Sekakoh’s creation in 2015 to continue monitoring the Kom-Wum chimps and protect Cameroon’s biodiversity. Registered in Bamenda in April 2015, Sekakoh was admitted in 2019 as the first non-founding member of the Alliance for the Conservation of Great Apes in Central Africa (AGSAC), a network of seven organisations from Gabon, Congo and Cameroon. In 2025, Sekakoh signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Cameroon’s Ministry of Forests and Wildlife. Its slogan is ‘Living in Harmony with Nature’; its name means ‘Remember them’ in the Balikumbat dialect, referencing the local extinction of the West African black rhino, last seen in Cameroon in 2000.
About
SEKAKOH
Cameroun
Bamenda