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Large areas of the plateau are seasonally burned to expand livestock pasture, and larger wild animals are hunted for food and to keep them away from crops. Larger wildlife is generally scarce, and none of the plateau is in protected areas.
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forests, and this is its northernmost occurrence in
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which rise above the savanna lowlands. The Hosséré Godé massif is close by to the northwest. It is separated from other mountains by lowlands less than 500 meters in elevation, including the
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Surveys of Selected Montane and Lowland Areas of Cameroon, WWF Cameroon, 1996, unpubl.
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