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Cameroon’s rich humid tropical rainforest is degrading at an alarming rate. The government has deployed several governmentality regimes including fortress conservation through the establishment and gazzetment of national parks and protected areas to arrest this disastrous situation. On the basis of two case studies, this chapter explores the evolution of the governance of national parks and the institutional obstacles that make protected areas a parody in Cameroon. This essay argues that the creation and implementation of national parks as artifacts and processes illustrate the nature and extent of global governmentality upon these regions, their people and their natural resources. While the protection of national parks and other reserves ensures that biological diversity is secured and also allows natural processes such as evolution to continue undisturbed by human influence, the exclusionary nature of protected area management regimes however, highlight the chasm between law as a governmental rationale which often fails to recognize traditional usage rights and instead tends to create conflicts between protected areas and local communities. This scenario is compounded by the acute underdevelopment that characterizes protected areas where top-down development is the norm.