Naburo, Njohjam Peter 
  
In 1998, the author installed a GIS software Mapinfo on the computers in the National Advanced 
school of Public Works Buea —annex. If this is well developed the university of Buea can also be a 
beneficiary of this technology. International donors in the field of GIS development in developing 
Countries should assist in the promotion of this technology in Cameroon. 
8.0 CONCLUSION. 
Data for the GIS database was got from existing maps digitized and converted in a digital format, field 
observation with the GPS and remote sensing data available on CD-Rom and hard copy map. Remote 
sensing and GIS technology has contributed in solving a landuse conflict between biodiversity 
conservation and plantation expansion. This has brought the forest to a discussion table with individual 
thematic layer overplayed one after another to show the possible areas of natural resource conservation. 
GPS application and GIS was the simplest means to illustrated the distribution of hunters camps 
within the forest reserve. This also enable to show the distribution of the elephant grazing range within 
the study area. The introduction of Land use planning within the Mount Cameroon region has led to 
the creation of a provincial land use planning Committee headed by the provincial governor. This 
committee has to replicate de Mount Cameroon example in the whole province. 
9.0 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT 
I am grateful to all those who assisted in typing of this paper and the mount Cameroon Project. 
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