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

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

Video Links

• http://youtu.be/CP-o_h-tzUM
• http://youtu.be/FyEXv1YNLmI