Afrothismia saingei

The main threat to this species across its range is loss and degradation of its evergreen forest habitat, mainly due to agricultural encroachment and logging. The Cameroon location on the western slopes of Mount Kupé is close to Mbule village, and it is threatened by clearance of the forest to grow crops.
Compared to Cameroon, Gabon is relatively sparsely populated by people, and still has much intact forest left. However forests are slowly being lost and about two-thirds of forest cover in the country is reserved for logging (Balinga et al. 2006).  It is likely that this species is still extant at the Waka valley location (to the east of Waka National Park, within the buffer zone); even though it was collected here in 1986 and there was selective logging in this area in the past, its forests are for the moment still largely intact (Balinga et al. 2006). The specific threats to this location are not known; hunting of bushmeat occurs in the area, which may have some impact.

The two Pongara National Park locations, although within a protected area, are threatened by their proximity to the expanding capital city of Libreville, which is half an hour by boat. The majority of people in Gabon are concentrated in urban areas such as Libreville. The Gabonese government has begun a major effort to develop a viable, large-scale ecotourism industry and there are plans to make Pongara National Park into a major tourist area with associated development and infrastructure within the park, and particularly the northern end of the park where the locations for this species are. Walking trails, recreation areas, access roads and hotel accommodation are all planned, and these all pose a future threat to these locations. Current human impacts are from the few tourist resorts around the northern tip of the national park, which are mainly used by weekend locals from Libreville, the several villages within the boundaries of the park and the regular anti-poaching patrols taking place.

No specific conservation measures or management plan are in place for this species. It is recorded from the Pongara National Park, which is one of the 13 areas in Gabon designated as a National Park by the government in 2002. Poaching is a major issue here and there are anti-poaching patrols within the park.There are plans to develop the park into a major ecotourism area, which would particularly impact the northern end of the park, where this species is known to occur. Without signposting, raising awareness of its presence and protecting the sites for this species they could inadvertently be destroyed. Sensitive development and management of tourism within the park is needed to avoid this.