Stop Deforestation in Africa!
The movement to help stop clear the forests in Mali.
Deforestation in Africa
Deforestaion is cutting down, burning, and otherwise destroying forests. The forests of Africa have been destroyed a great bit, except for the Congo Basin, mostly by loggers and by farmers clearing land for farming. About 90% of the forest has disappered in West Africa, and what is left is not useable. Today, people cannot go in West African unspoiled forests, except in Côte d'Ivoire and another along the border between Nigeria and Cameroon.
The African population is the poorest nation as millions of people go hungry all the time. the only way food is available to these people is if they farm. Therefore they have to cut down the trees for agriculture, so they can feed their people.Preventing deforestation is critical for many reasons. Having forests help protect coastal regions, control avalanches and desertification. Trees stabilize sand dunes, and prevent soil erosion and degradation. For many people in the world, deforestation threatens thier chances of living, as forests are their home, their way of getting food, medicine, and energy, as well as their spiritual and cultural ways.
http://www.afrol.com/features/10278
http://www.globalwarmingandu.com/deforestation/Effects-Of-Deforestation-In-Africa.html
Trees in Mali
This is a picture of what the forests in Mali currently look like. The trees are weak and thin, and there are few. http://www.un.org/News/dh/photos/large/2012/November/11-07-2012deforestation.jpg
Hurting the Lives of Animals
It is the citizens job to make sure the cattle will live, so by cutting down trees, the people are taking shade away from the cattle. Escpecially in the dry season. http://www.treeaid.org.uk/our-work/where-we-work/mali/
The land
In Mali, after too many trees were cut down, it turned into a deserted area. There is no point in cutting down the trees if the soil is not fertile. http://www.treeaid.org.uk/wp-content/gallery/mali/dsc_0170.jpg
How Can People Help?
Tree Aids is Here to Help
TREE AID has been working in Mali since 1993. Our office there is based in Segou.
Read more: http://www.treeaid.org.uk/our-work/where-we-work/mali/#ixzz2EsTKlzvE