Protecting all of nature

Personal memory by Hindou Ibrahim

2022 CEChad

“Imagine when you come in country like mine, in Chad. In the north, you have the desert 100 per cent; you come a little bit down, you have the Sahara regions; you go a little bit further you have the savannah. And after the savannah, you have the tropical forests. What is happening with climate change? [With] desertification advanced, the people from the desert moved to the Sahel, the people from the Sahel moved to the savannahs, those from savannah moved to tropical forests. And that's also how the peoples are using the ecosystem that exists. So you cannot choose to protect only the tropical forests. When you place money, you must think about all the rest of the ecosystem that interconnects - from the oceans to the glaciers."

in "Hindou Ibrahim: Living in harmony with nature," United Nations: Climate Action.

Image: Valerian Guillot, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons