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The planet is loosing about 200 square kms of forest daily. In Africa, forests are disappearing at a rate double the global average (FAO, 2008)

That situation is mainly due to wars, refugees’ flow, poaching, and extinction of plant and fauna species as well as detrimental mining practices. 

Almost 80% of destruction of global forest species recently experienced is linked to demographic explosion (UNFPA).

 In that connection, indigenous peoples are the most affected by environmental decay due to the loss of arable land and of their means of livelihood. Also affecting them is the desert spreading phenomenon.

The worse occurrence is that deforestation implications account for 20% of total global release of carbon dioxide, thus contributing to the climate change being experienced.  

  To date, a glimpse of the crisis brought about by current global climate change augurs bleak prospects: droughts, floods, pelting and irregular rains, land disputes, water scarcity, upland erosion, transhumance (due to ecological constraints), depletion (streams and rivers), free temperature rise, decreased productivity and low income.  
Moreover, the myth suggesting that natural resources are unending has led to excessive productivity, detrimental to the ecosystems stability and to the relationship human being-Environment.
Billions of people lack sanitation facilities and safe drinking water. 

The result is frightening: on an annual basis, millions of children die from diseases caused by environmental pollution across African slums. 

Further compounding the situation, the population growth shooting up at exponential proportions exacerbates the need for energy, food supplies, arable lands and grasslands (pastures) and basic social services. It is therefore expected that by 2025, the Third World will account for 85% of the global population. 
Streams are faced with pollution stemming from improper accumulation of various waste materials.

African tropical forests – the second largest in the world – largely made of those of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (declared global commons) have a crucial role to play in counteracting or alleviating the effects of climate change.

 In view of the many challenges aforementioned, we pull the communication-cord, inviting people to board the GREEN ARK  to be safe from the downpour and protect our endangered ecosystems.