Rethinking Rights and Interests of Local Communities in REDD+ Designs: Lessons Learnt from Current Forest Tenure Systems in Cameroon

Table 2

Influence of surface area and physical environment on unequal access to exploitable tree species.

Community forests	Number of standing trees and those with exploitable diameters			Surface area (ha)
	Total	Below MED	With MED
Doumzock	872	274	598	550
Lamson	2353	578	1775	650
Messok-Messok	3017	468	2549	1300
Lelene	3904	1153	2751	1400
Zoulabot I	6819	2149	4670	2300
Ngoyla village	4634	1036	3598	2300
Etekessang	9742	2585	7157	2750
Nkondong I	5735	1232	4503	3220
Menkouom	10530	2763	7635	3500
Total	47606	12238	35236	17970

Source: data obtained from CAFT, 2008. MED: minimum exploitable diameter.