TRAILER - Traditional Bakweri Baskets of Mount Cameroon

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People and Plants International, through the Mount Cameroon Cultural Forests Project, a collaboration of communities, local nonprofit organizations, and the Limbe Botanic Garden, has produced a video series documenting and celebrating the traditional basket-making of the Bakweri people of Mount Cameroon, which incorporates a range of forest and other species, and grows from knowledge developed over generations.

Mount Cameroon is an active volcano, the largest mountain in West Africa, and one of the most biologically diverse places on earth. The Indigenous Bakweri and other groups living around Mount Cameroon and in Southwest Province retain strong traditional resource management systems that grow from deep historical and cultural connections to place. However, biodiversity, forests and traditional knowledge and practices are under pressure from industrial agriculture, and other global economic and cultural forces.

The Mount Cameroon Cultural Forests Project builds on work undertaken in the region over the last 30 years, in collaboration with local organizations and institutions, and villages around Mount Cameroon. We are committed to ethical storytelling and true partnership.
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