Responding to the instruction to preserve forests given on 4 April by President Macky Sall, Greenpeace Africa’s Campaign Manager Dr Aliou Ba said:
“Greenpeace Africa welcomes the commitment of the President of the Republic of Senegal, Macky Sall, to preserve the forests.”
40,000 of Senegal’s 19.6 million hectares of forest disappear every year, Sall told the audience at his 2018 inauguration, emphasizing the urgency of quickly stopping a scourge that poses a threat to present and future generations.
“Deforestation has a significant impact on the climate. Apart from oceans, it’s forest ecosystems that capture the most carbon. Destroying them accelerates global warming,” observed Dr Ba.
Stressing their vital and limited nature, Greenpeace Africa is inviting people to protect their local forests, and is calling on timber exporters to adopt strong commitments against deforestation.
“The exporters must set up transparent and traceable supply chains from end to end, and producers who ravage the forests have to be excluded from these,” Dr Ba insisted.
