Hi im femi oke am during the stream today its been called the 8th wonder of the weld a huge green belt of trees planted to hope that theres a holiday as it in our 2nd discussion in a whole week of shows tied to the covering climate now initiative were looking at an ambitious african Land Restoration project called the great green wall so your questions your comments on twitter and i would you want us to get them into this. Im actually can solo i am a climate advocates and a climate scientist and you are in the stream. The south is one of the most vulnerable places on earth to have it. Its on the front lines of Climate Change. More than 80 percent of people survive in some form of agriculture. If people cant work their land. Millions across the region. Will be forced to migrate. So that was a clip from the new documentary the great green of war could a forest planted from the way to duty address migration and other social issues so i think it could since 2007 work has been underway on an initiative to grow an 8000 kilometer long forest across the entire width of the saheli with us to talk about this in at is about you feel. Tangent is coordinator of the African Unions great green war and mission to in Lisbon Portugal of mali and singer songwriter in a mojo she is ambassador to the United Nations convention to come back to set a vacation and also the narrator of the great green more documentary at a nairobi was in the ecologist an environmentalist its really good to have you all here we have questions from our Online Community already the scene says i think this project represents the willingness of the african nations to fight against Climate Change and the great green wall was serve as a beautiful reminder and an inspiration to continue our efforts in the fight against Climate Change what a positive start in uk when you 1st have heard about the great free will can you remember what your 1st reaction was i was really surprised because i was born and raised in mali and living in the fact how i talk about i know everything about whats happening and i just heard about this project 3 years ago and i couldnt believe it because theyre so ambitious and so bold that. I wanted to know everything about it all right so now you are madam ambassador so you tell us in a nutshell as we show our map going to show a map of the continent of africa where this great green wall will be when it is finished which may take many generations but in a nutshell what is it. Actually the Great Britain well is most like the Community Project from senegal to djibouti so its really from west africa and the idea is to bring communities together and help them restart degraded in length and help with the scarcity of resources and help combat this sort of a geisha and i want to bring in our state because elvis and enjoy your job to oversee this mammoth project it is epic in size how well is it know though across the african continent. Currently from here. Its not on its. Its very well. Researched. It decodes on form when. Were pretty confident that its been known. To construct a photo of. The number of troops the African Union on its Development Partners the u. N. To see to go bomb a commission. That youre counting on the u. N. Agencies that we continuously work very mature now. With your people in their developmental worms so they dont. Think well i know well that thats thats the time i look in the development of course you know about in the Development Well let me just bring him with us on the into this conversation but im wondering about everything asking to live beyond that area what i know about this this dayshift project. I think they do i mean to be honest with you now what we have so should be the. People are beginning to live really in a Global Village they are aware of this initiative and its been incredible i mean i was very fortunate the 1st time i went to the sahara and region was over 10 years ago and coming from sound in africa and see our ease. And also looking at the new jarrah river smack in the middle of this a hell was quite amazing because its the lifeline its there you know difference between the rigidity and water and also you wonder how do people really live in this landscape that is so arid so its a really fascinating region and people do know about it now with them before and i want to show a little clip from the documentary that you know writing youre really the correspondent as you go around this great green war territory the region where either the teams already planted and they will be planted and as a little point where you meet one of the technical directors and you start planting trees. So you see if. I was a sample. So im going to step down lets. See if my love for. This or that is if. I try this is so simple that. Some dont. Get done does a. In a gentle. Caressing a little baby and put them into the. But how vulnerable in terms of your planting an area that is extremely hard well you know if they are like babies they are really precious because they can change the lives of millions of people and for me being there and witnessing the communities coming together every day and planting and knowing that in 10 years this will become trees you know its it was amazing it was not just the symbol of how it was like doing something i think its we need to tell the stories storytelling is really important but story doing is even better and i felt in this moment that that was what i was going to rethink and something. I totally agree i mean i think in i absolutely love the fact that you are your sister and musician youre an activist and youre a woman and the women of the african continent have really been so theres all of these landscapes the power is so. Great for it its really women across africa just looking at. The activities that you are undertaking and also seeing what is being done within the sweat house for the great reason why i think that the change thats going to happen and also the some viable of the trees also remains really in the hands of the communities its not by anybody from the outside and also what were beginning to see those are the changes in climate that really manifest very extreme events you know sometimes when rain isnt dissipated it doesnt come so how do we make sure that these trees actually do survive so thats quite a really important element of all of this work out just how do you make sure the truth of ive. Ever heard truly is just the beginning of. You said one thats a very good good one its a lot of truth. Im recovered. 3. Market conditions Congress Home its. Time for hospitals. You have to provide water for the tree you have to protect the train from the harsh where the. Moons. You have to put all this talk cross into get it together you have to protect the chain and show that betray is not standing on the grass and down you have to ensure that the tree is not going to be eaten up by hunger and the moment you have to ensure that the tree at the end of the day will not be yours for hire what would you have to endure so then there is this is that all of the factors that are necessary for a tree to grow in the sahara it takes more than just planted a tree its a whole life long process that we put into and show about a tree grows from signaling right of the cherry. I have a son that. Can add a little bit into what elvis is saying i think what i also want to ask is not lets lets bear in mind that you know over 30 as ago and i think you just juggle the memory of the older generation of africa and the late how much fun car really was one of the instigators and sort of leaders say around the whole idea of the great reward even though it wasnt cold as such so over time there was a lot of activity and a lot of Research Organizations like you know the world i was Forestry Organization or the Research Institution but what kind of what sort of experimenting with tree species and i just want to add and say you know one of the elements that were working on from u. N. Involvement like together with organizations like f. O. Even with the African Union is to make sure that we identify the countless species that are actually viable indigenous d species which are very important for by diversity but also for making sure that the current is sequestered in the soil and also making sure that its not an Invasive Species that suddenly is planted in an area so this is also very important and also we have to bear in mind that communities have known for millenia and just you know touching on the as an art is the music that has has resonated across you know the creel the l. The federal funds on tree the sun some species some of which have disappeared so how do we then begin to think about you know where where is the biodiversity in this area that evil so very critical for this they call the landscape. A lot of there are no and thats any you met activists high elvis for we hanging but we dont see you because theres a storm right now in addus were talking about climate were talking about natural natural events so its appropriate that we should have a way of connecting and. Of the storm so i was very alert to peter werent our im so sorry im so sorry but hope time for my because i want to bring in an activist and i campaign who has so much passion about what this actual initiative means its not just about trees its about communities have a look have this big. Its about survival in. Almost 60000000 people who are directly affected in over 200 rather graphic communities this is unacceptable i believe that now more than ever before we must unite from each child. To mind we must be collective Action Technology to help provide us with the unique opportunity to document voices to be fighting with importantly to learn from each other and bring about a solution. Its about survival. On your journey around the sahara region you met many people and you told many stories about survival tell us one that really stood out for you. Well i i have. I have the chance to meet my friend in nigeria and i absolutely agree with what hes saying its a matter of survival i went to nigeria i met with the annex boko haram fighter and a young lady who was abducted when she was 13 and married to a book of how to fight her and their stories were incredible and strongly tied to the change in climate because the those regions are so vulnerable because they survive on the lake chad that is that has trunk from 100 percent i think the like trade now has shrunk by 90 percent. Since 50 years so its its terrible to see those communities going through such hardships because of the changing climate and their stories were hard bright braken but also with a lot of hope because we know that we can do something to make a change of this point when you back into the conversation i want to share this with you its from a tweet from the tala the tellus says the great green wall is vital for Peace Security and climate was an instance a health one of the most vulnerable regions to Climate Change related to security risks the project which is conflict between nomadic hoses and farmers which is poverty hunger and improve life and hurts that is a huge responsibility for that project do you believe that that is possible can you explain how broke just mark mark on that for you insert some degree that many contractors did a lot in our solution to solve the problems of park or that she was so on the good bridge and it was difficult chung charts for months. And the heads of state of the africa are younger learns that this cannot be done inside us so they decided to create a Pan African Africa program in the ship that we agree to quickly did a great. Effect our countries are coming together. On one might strike you begin on continental. Initiatives to be about where its country and mentally mark in your silly. Heads. Down most of the challenges that scientists in the usa live in helping. People youre saying that that is helping the unity so the great thing always bringing the conflict gather and getting them is that right ok i understand that we have got like some i didnt mention but its beginning. To turn on one vision yet its. Not in charge back. To britain is in charge are not affected by the activity its in major. Most of the middle east its cons because during the trial should monkey one believes no grab on no for back for their own the most in one part of the continent the malta the other part. We dont do this its rebound on that pick thats where storage went to get into what was obvious but there will be a detective i always call take a pause because we have tweets coming in people are listening to you and wanting to ask you questions im going to put this to you in a this is from how well its crazy i have seen the phrase but never really understood it till now how effective has the project been so far how does it reduce the set of occasions within the region in im going to give that one to your the ambassador. Well you know its. Its not just about planting trees its about restoring degraded and less and bringing opportunities Job Opportunities to the communities living in the sahara and i think the project is 15 percent undergone because it is not enough in 10 years we aim to do much more and thats the reason why we need people to know about this project outside of the development yes because thats what i asked elvis poor he said everyone in the development of developing well knows a Development Well but its people outside of a that needs to know if this is this is the you muscle that this one is from is coming in life people are tweeting so theyre asking the question i was going to every him the rate at which we fell down trees outweight the rate at which we plant them in africa how can the great green war survive is that even true. Good to see you know a lot im going to give us a little sound of a go ahead to that now if i could and you coming back next. The kind of landscape or says this is this is a shrub like. Sort of our is the only survivor so we have to bear in mind that its not sort of the congo basin forest kind of landscape however as you know the point count and alice is well in terms of the levels of degrees racially its several layers i mean the layers in terms of the cultivation that taken place in the land and the number of livestock that have you know expanded. The the increase in the number of my stock and also the different as a fatal activity such as you know felling trees for charcoal etc and then a classic example its happened in spaces like guyana in the by helen region which is also the same region that has a shia tree and for those of you you shared butter which is really amazing and also very important value chain and valuable products that women produce and in fact Companies Like nobody depend on products like shia so in responding to that question i would say that actually a lot of communities have been trying to do something because they live in this community so for example in parts of ghana where women are really convening conversations to say well we cannot be great the landscape and cut the trees because we would not be able to generate income from our share and also maintain and manage the eco system but i also just want to mention something in relation to the record systems we used to have a program under the un environment that used to be in the lakes i would be on the lake probably not using the very north of mali now this is a well and system and lake system but when the birds migrate from euro tollways africa this is the 1st front you know they had to get water and when we were there it was incredibly degraded we try to do some research and this is 20082009 sunday which you know again all i meant to do in a few incredibly to create a system where there was likely no water there. With the grace of god can credibly degrade it so there was no water that they were the birds could well there was the very matter of space where you have a size maybe a one meter by one meter a kind of lake system just going to contact a lot of shrink to a 3rd of that because of the advancing ground around this hour or so and also some different activities that are taking place around the community ok however the instability then and so we stop doing this work people move because of the insurgency and this is also the some of the challenges that you know the spaces within that to hell in regions fade so i see and we see in a way in which the role of traditional leaders for example in conflict resolution so that some of these activities environments i think you can continue the conversation actually you know the emir of carnal for example discussing having conversation and dialogue with boko haram and others within the us. So that these activities and that in itself explains the holistic nature of the landscape why and i very much i realized that when im reading your one of the press your conversation its more than a line of trees in my book an epic line of trees but its much more than that in other things i have to ask because i was fascinated by this on your journey you went to the African Union the idea for this project came from a former president of. And he took it to the African Union with the pan african project and i was fascinated by how is the project doing how did you react to you you are sitting that you what was your reaction to what you heard and im going to play a little clip a new should be started here in the African Union i would like to know how were going to achieve the goal. Of the initial 2 into one countries that started were talking about of our implementation of 15 percent so the political commitment is the target is to restore every piece of land that is vulnerable to Climate Change and this occasion and to create about 20000000 jobs is a huge huge ambition i dont know whether ever be completed because development never ends. I was determined to get elviss poor face in the program somehow despite the storms in addies avodah. As you were going in there you have only just learned about the quake and will you are us us learning about it while you press the African Union do you feel that they could do more. Well yes you know i was a credit to go to the African Union get out and the project started there so our i was really looking forward to being there and i had so many questions beginning of the trip even before i started the trip when i only heard about the greater good what i want to. Know more about it and some of my questions were answered and. They are doing a lot of work but we have so much to do together because. Its great when we have it in from hour to 2030 we have to do more i dont know but you know the project so i really i dont know a 1000000000 for me it was really going to be there and hear from our leaders that they are really focusing all their strength and coming together and make this happen we are right the next generation will go live accountable thank you so much to so much more to talk about elvis im sorry that we only still had your voice and didnt see your face what we thank you for your contribution thank you to in a merger and also miss on them as well if you want to fight at war about the great green wall you should go to the web site the website is a great green war dog or and a documentary comes out next year and you may well be at a catch as a film festivals around the world this year thank you guess our week of covering climate continues tomorrow should destroying the environment be considered a crime against humanity citizens around the world are taking governments and corporations to court trying to hold them accountable for the consequences of Climate Change. 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