Environment

The South African documentary The Knowledge of the Pieuvre received the Oscar for greatest documentary, on Sunday, April 25 in Los Angeles. It tells the story of a snorkel diver and an octopus in Cape City's False Bay. The assembly between man and octopus takes place in a kelp forest. These are massive algae that may attain 60 meters in top and are house to a wealthy ecosystem. With the knowledge of…

In Senegal, pits with dates that are eaten when you break Ramadan will no longer be thrown in the trash. The National Agency for Reforestation and the Great Green Wall has launched a fundraising campaign to restore them so they can then replant the land, losing 40,000 hectares of forest per year. as reported from Dakar, Thea…

Published on April 21, 2021 in the journal Nature, an international study coordinated by researchers from IRD and CIRAD, identifies for the first time the forest areas most exposed to the increasing climate and human pressures expected in the coming decades. Cameroon, Gabon, the Republic of the Congo, the Democratic Republic of…

The fight for the climate is at the heart of an international virtual summit organized over two days by US President Joe Biden in connection with Earth Day. On the African continent, signs of disruption are increasing. The Joe Biden's first announcements denote a desire to reduce carbon dioxide emissions. To lead by example,…

It is a phenomenon that has plagued the Togolese coast for several years: the sea is moving across the continent and across the sandy beaches of Togo. The swells turn into strong waves that crash into the coast and destroy it by swallowing everything, from house to coast. ”In cemeteries. On the beaches, the remains of abandoned houses are legion. Sunken cemeteries leave some grave ruins. All this is visible after the harbor: a set of ruins belonging to families, some of which have gone far away and become tenants in their…

The World Bank wants to hire financial markets to save the black rhinos in South Africa. With "nature bonds", the organization plans to issue bonds with the simple principle: investors only make money if the black rhino in South Africa increases. What happens if investors play a role in rescuing black rhinos? The idea came…

Petit Mbao was known for having one of the most beautiful white sand beaches in Senegal. Since the 1960s, industrial plants have moved in, including Senegal's largest chemical plant. Many people in Petit Mbao have for years complained about the smell of the plant and the chemical in the air that burns their eyes and affects breathing. Children, livestock and fishermen have been known to…

Lots of fish as well as dead dolphins have been reported in recent days off the Ghanaian coast. An investigation is underway to determine the causes of this accident, unparalleled in this English-speaking West African country. A team of experts from the Ministry of Fisheries and Aquaculture went to the website. The locations of fish and dolphins, in the hundreds, stretched for miles of coastline. Richmond Kennedy Quarcoo has never seen so many. Co-founder of the local NGO Plastic Punch, which aims to combat plastic…

Demonstration in Tunisia to ask Italy to take back its waste. An environmental scandal against a background of corruption shakes the country. A total of 282 containers of Italian household waste were imported illegally last year. Senior customs officials were fired, as was the Minister of the Environment, imprisoned since the end of 2020. And despite legal proceedings, the 7,800 tonnes of rubbish bins…

One of the largest underground uranium mines in the world is closing its doors. Akouta Mining Company (Cominak), a subsidiary of Orano Cycle (French multinational, formerly Areva), which has been using uranium deposits in the province of Agadez in northern Niger since 1978, will stop production on Wednesday 31 March. A closure carried out under unsatisfactory conditions for non-governmental organizations which, in addition to the social…