**5. Managerial shortcomings, pressures and threats to the conservation of values**

The identification of multiple threats and pressures to the stability of the park, and the numerous arguments demonstrating inadequacies in management, represent risks of regression in values. **Table 1** presents these obstacles to the process of sustainable management of the park, ranked according to importance in terms of their recurrence in the analysis of various works on the park.

In the event of their persistence or accentuation, a rapid depreciation to the level of UNESCO's natural heritage in danger is conceivable, or even a reclassification in the permanent forest domain of the Cameroonian state. Also, it is necessary to point out a limitation of the valuing consideration of the MGNP, which is not based on the effectiveness of its management system and its governance system, particularly according to the principles of the IUCN green list [44, 45]. Despite the managerial shortcomings noted, the reference ecosystem values of the MGNP can be used for its sustainable management, given the official non-existence at the time of writing of a park management plan that complies with the texts in force in Cameroon.

#### **6. Proposed management objectives**

The use of information on the MGNP and the analysis of the management experiences of protected areas in Africa and in Cameroon in particular [35, 46–48], *Implications of Ethnoecological and Phytoecological Studies for the Sustainable Management… DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.98584*


*\*Importance of elements of managerial inadequacy, threats and pressures assessed according to their recurrence in the analysis of available data on the park.*

#### **Table 1.**

*Managerial shortcomings, pressures and threats to the stability of the park.*

revealed shortcomings that led to the recommendation of the three main management objectives below:


The management measures and strategies attached to each of these objectives are applicable at different scales in this process, from the central state to local populations. The aim is to comply with the requirements of donors and international institutions in charge of biodiversity conservation programs, which support natural resource management based on participatory approaches [49, 50].
