Ethnobotanical survey of wild edible plants used by Baka people in southeastern Cameroon.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Forest inhabitants worldwide, and indigenous people especially, have depended for generations on plants and animals harvested in these ecosystems. A number of Baka hunter-gatherer populations in south-eastern Cameroon became sedentarised in the 1950s, but still rely on hunting and gathering to meet their basic needs. The use of wild edible plants (WEP) by these communities remains largely undocumented. In this study, we record the diversity of WEP used by Baka people in dense rainforests in the Mintom region. The area still contains relatively undisturbed forest expanses, just south of the Dja Biosphere Reserve, one of the most important protected areas in the Congo Basin.

Methods

We conducted two ethnobotanical surveys in 2019 in four villages on the Mintom road.

SUBMITTER: Billong Fils PE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7579891 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature