Mauritania among the most affected Sahel countries by phenomena of drought and desertification The General Secretary of the Mauritanian Ministry of Environment Mauritanian Mohammed acknowledges that Mauritania of the most Sahel countries affected by the phenomena of drought and desertification, and explained during the workshop organized in Nouakchott on updating the National Plan of Action to Combat Desertification, aligned with strategic decimal of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification, and he mentioned that the inventory forest cover in Mauritania is estimated at 4387000 hectares, according to the report of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization in 2001. And that the annual production of wood estimated at 565000 cubic meters while the annual consumption is estimated at 1.8 million cubic meters, equivalent to three times the capacity of natural forest. The spokesman for the German technical and financial Cooperation Agency Vinson From his part, mentioned the necessity of unity and cooperation in order to maintain the integrity of the Mauritanian vulnerablle environment as he said. It is noteworthy that this workshop was organized by the Environmental Protection Department of Mauritania in collaboration with the Global Environment Fund, the United Nations Development Programme, the United Nations Environment Programme and the German Cooperation.
Posted on: Thu, 09 Jan 2014 11:48:45 +0000
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