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Abdoulaye Diack
Age: 69
Home: Seroume, Senegal
In 1970 Seroume’s village chief Abdoulaye Diack realised that cutting down trees was aggravating desertification in this area of northern Senegal. So he planted ten mango seeds. Today only one tree survives but it is magnificent. It provides shelter, firewood, food and much-needed vegetation for the whole village.
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Climate change in Senegal

Seroume village is in northern Senegal, next to the River Senegal and close to the Mauritanian border
In the 1960s the Senegalese government allowed people to cut down trees to make and sell charcoal. But there was little regeneration and whole forests in the north of the country have been devastated
Most people in northern Senegal are involved in nomadic herding – following the rains with their livestock
Overgrazing, deforestation, a rise in temperatures and unpredictable rains have caused desertification
It is estimated that the desert is encroaching by 300 metres a year

Filed in: Africa, Climate Change

Senegal

Senegal
population: 11.4 million
life expectancy: 56 years
population living on less than $2 a day: 63%