Africa's Flora and Fauna
Published on Nov 22, 2015
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African Flora and Fauna
ARICA RAINFOREST CONSERVANCY
- Environmental education programs and school-run tree nurseries in 200 primary and secondary schools.
- Tree planting to provide alternative sources of timber and fuel-wood so the forests are left untouched.
- Some 2,000 households now use fuel-efficient stoves.
- Introduction of fuel-efficient cook stoves that use 50 percent less wood than traditional stoves.
- Introduction of alternative sources of income, such as fishing ponds and butterfly farms
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EUROPEAN UNION HELP
- The EU supports a programme that will improve the protection of elephants, great apes and rhinos
- It will strengthen the monitoring of animal populations and poaching
- in 2012 around 22,000 elephants were illegally killed across the African continent
GREEN REVOLUTION
- population expected to quadruple by end of this century
- Africa holds 60% of worlds uncultivated arable land
- allows for agricultural boom
- opens up for more jobs
