The principal climate change officer at the Ministry of Environment, Climate Change, Water Resources and Parks and Wildlife has lauded the Gambia’s step in mainstreaming climate change and its possible consequences into her development aspirations.
As part of the implementation of the Go-WAMER program, the regional coordination unit of Go-Wamer has begun five days sub-regional conference on governance, marine resource management policies and poverty reduction in the Ecoregion.
Governance of marine and management of coastal resources dubbed ‘GO-Wamer’ has recently concluded sensitization for fishermen on fisheries Act of 2007 and regulation. The training is designed to raise the awareness of the fishermen in fisheries act of 2007 and fisheries regulation 2008 as well as promote the best practices for appropriate usages of fishing nets by the fishermen in Gambian waters.
The department of parks and wildlife management has recently embarked on environmental regeneration exercise at Tanbi National Park in the outskirt of Bakau. The mangrove planting exercise according to the organizers is meant to restore the ecosystem as well as restore the biodiversity of the wetland in the country.
The native of Kerewan on Saturday embarked on a massive environmental regeneration exercise as well as clean-up exercise dubbed ‘setsettal’ held at the outskirt of the villages. The initiative is a community-led project that is earmarked to reunite the people of Kerewan as well as conserve the protected settlement of the community.
A synergy spearheaded by Department of Forestry and Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO), converged stakeholders at a local hotel in Kololi, to develop strategies aimed at effective Community-Base Sustainable Dryland Forest Management.
The head of the Communication and Extending Unite at the Department of Forestry has underscored that forest resources such as trees can serve as important mitigating factor in the reduction of climate change.
