Here's what to show policymakers the Copenhagen Summit.
Throughout the Casamance, to Niafarang Elinkine of Nioumoune to Marssassoum through Tobor: men, women and children were replanted 6.302 million mangrove seedlings on an area of 1200 hectares. In 43 days of hard work, the villagers of Casamance have planted in the ground with the hope of mangrove propagules ... 
Who says better? Haidar El Ali
Thanks again for your support. We will count on you next year, goal: 6000 acres! (30 million trees)
http://oceanium.blogspot.com/
Biodiversity and Sustainable Development
If there a place well unites the earth and the sea, it is the mangrove, calling it one of the most productive ecosystems on the planet.
Oceanium, NGOs in environmental protection, led by its heroic Haidar El Ali has successfully completed its incredible gamble, reforest more than 6 million mangrove propagules of the mangrove in Senegal. Passing a double challenge of preserving biodiversity, and of mobilizing an entire region by creating conditions for sustainable development fully managed by local people, providing a way to maintain and reproduce, to resolve Africa intertwined with its links with underdevelopment and dependency.
( 11 000 villagers who were massively mobilized to save the last mangrove from Senegal. This craze populations is the result of a long education, which affected 32 500 people .)
Biodiversity
Mangroves play an essential role in the life cycle of many species. They function as reservoirs of nutrients and harbor a myriad of fish are spawning grounds and nurseries for many species of fish including sardine, carp, barracuda, Captain, and shrimp, crabs .... Hotbed for the West African Manatee (Trichechus senegalensis), a marine mammal, now in danger of living there. Saloum Delta is also an important transit point for many migratory bird species.
I refer you to the excellent blog of Herviaux Olivier http://africamix.blog.lemonde.fr/
( the Océanium chose to create its second marine protected area community, after that of Saloum Delta . It will be divided into two parts: the first devoted to manatees where all human activity is prohibited, the second located slightly farther west, where only the anglers will be allowed. And still, according to the will of Oceanium managed by and for people in surrounding villages.)
Mangroves provide other products and services: extraction of tannins, herbs, bark used as condiments , charcoal, fodder, straw, honey, etc.. and actively participate in the stabilization and coastal protection and moderation of the effects of coastal storms and cyclones and the maintenance of good water quality by trapping charges in alluvial and that filter and pollution loads. They
are a major source of protein for thousands of coastal communities, particularly in developing countries.
( women of Casamance are formed by women Saloum collection techniques responsible for mangrove oysters)
Funding issues were at the heart of the 6th Global Forum on Sustainable Development, held from October 27 to 30, Brazzaville, Congo's capital. During this event, Congolese President Denis Sassou Nguesso, has proposed creating a fund for African sustainable development. A proposal has received support from several heads of state.
50 years ago that Africa was suspended from the problems of financing for its development, so that often it is increasing its dependence on and let future generations subject. (No comments)
It is now undeniable that there are three avenues of development for Africa,
-Good governance and true democracy (here, find all its funding sense)
-training of the population adapted to real needs and effective outreach.
The truck travels cinema villages to raise awareness of the urgency of preserving the environment.
Finally mobilization and awareness of individual responsibility, smaller rivers are the major rivers flowing into the sea ... each player is in development.
( awareness of the whole village with a film education in preparation for reforestation )
Do you think it is possible 6 million to replant trees that the villagers do not feel concerned? This dynamic, and this awareness result of effective advocacy is the key to sustainable development.
This love and infatuation, here is what we never see at international conferences on the subject.
(Mangroves are a major source of protein for thousands of coastal communities, and an irreplaceable reservoir of biodiversity.)
Oceanium by its actions has shown that possible to combine the struggle for preservation of biodiversity and environmental protection and sustainable development.
Global Greens 2008 - Haidar El Ali (Senegal)
