Dear Editor,

Please note that several years ago, Mangrove Action Project teamed up with Dr. Gordon Anjonina of the Cameroon Wildlife Conservation Society on developing a test model of an improved fish smoke house design that would smoke fish in half the time, while reducing mangrove wood use by 40% or more for the fish smoking process. In addition, the unhealthy conditions posed by the traditional system of smoking fish on open fires that fill the room with acrid smoke, which is dangerous for the health of the women whose job it is for the family to tend the fires and smoke the fish. Many of these women are overcome by smoke inhalation, and some are burned to death in the accidental fires brought on by the intensive smoking process. The improved fish smokehouse design needs wider dissemination and publicity in the coastal regions.

For more information, visit MAP’s website at:www.mangroveactionproject.org

I am a cmaeroonian an indigin of the south west region of cameroon.
I hail form the mangroove or creek line and maritime strech town of Tiko Sub-division in fako division.
I witness in discriminate disapperance of our ecological maritime environment in the like of mangrooves.
I ahve done volunteering with the mount cmaeroon forest project and have an evocating approach to sustain and protect our marine life and the mangroove forest.
I wish to have support and possible enhance capacity training in adequate approach for sustainable exploitation of the mangroove for fire wood in domestic and fish drying.
I wish to have a respond and timely up-grade information on the mangroove forest.
Accept my sincere approach of contact sensitization and information building.
THANKS