In July 2023, Shephard Andrew Zonde travelled to Cameroon - home to 49,000 km of the TRIDOM – a protected tri-national forest area that also spans into Gabon, and the Republic of Congo. While the TRIDOM is a protected area, its peripheries are at constant risk of encroachment and deforestation, posing a threat to its Indigenous peoples and large mammal population, including elephants, gorillas and chimpanzees.