Environmental research

The degradation of the mangroves d is ph name do g n achieved in the poor countries of the world and exacerbat in South B nin. With l d demographic explosion and l lack of alternative economic, of mangrove wood and fish resources are surexploit es by the populations the most poor d thus destroying the basis economic of their existence. The techniques of p che no longer allow the reproduction of fish. Cutting of mangrove leaves the shores without protection l erosion and the sedimentation d destroying s and res fray of fish and place of life of several esp these menac es (monkeys, migratory birds, manatees, sitatungas, otters, reptiles). B nin, 3000 tonnes of salt are produced by heating with wood, using each year more than 20,000 m very cube mangrove wood. Face this SUZI s is constitutional in 2003, l instigation of women who are today today its Board of Directors, to find economic solutions for a sustainable exploitation of natural resources of the coast and to protect l agroecosystem me mangrove. AFEL thus intervened in two types of action various (production of salt by evaporation in the Sun instead of heating by wood of mangrove and protection int grale of mangrove areas) which have given results positive and qu it s is to consolidate and relax in the pr this project, two seasons additional including this time activity of participatory resource management and development the local bodies in the sites of the project. The effects expected from the project: A term, c is the participatory management and the conservation of biodiversity of the lagoon area which are am lior. Supports educational and awareness will be produced the documentary film r example carried out with the collaboration of SGP/GEF is expected short-term an am improvement of producing womens incomes. With d j women form es, approximately 800 women who will be able to benefit from the benefits of solar salt n b n b. Medium and long term, the maintenance of 30 hectares of mangrove should encourage the preservation of fisheries resources to b n p fishers fice. On the environmental front, reversing the trend of the degradation of l agroecosystem d, c is the maintenance of l agroecosystem me of mangrove and wetland area that is at stake, with its esp these thematic embl and services environmental qu it makes.

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