Environment Ministry to support Councils mainstream biodiversity in dev’t activities

By DOH JAMES SONKEY Environment, Nature Protection and Sustainable Development Minister, Hele Pierre has promised that his ministry will support councils financially and technically in mainstreaming biodiversity in their development activities. He made the promise last October 30, 2017 at the Yaounde Hilton Hotel during a national workshop on mainstreaming biodiversity through a sustainable tourism promotion programme for local councils. Minister Hele Pierre boasted that “Cameroon’s rich biological diversity and exotic landscapes which offer opportunities for sustaining the tourism industry, increasing the tourism economy and generating innovative finances to fund activities for biodiversity protection are located in diverse sahel, savannah,…