The Desertification of Chad
Chad was, and still to an extent is a country with two completly different climates. The lower part is a tropical region while the north-northwest region is now broad plains of desert.
It was not always like this in Chad though. Not until the 1980's when the country processed between 13.5-16 million hectares of forest and woodland. This is causing major desertification in Chad.
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Desertification is also due to climate change. The rate at which this is all happening is alarming to some because it is harming the biodiversity in Chad. Because of all the overgrazing and periodic drought Chad also has it is causing soil erosion. Vegetation can only survive so long without water before it begins to die, and the land mass turns into a desert. This information was gathered from galegroup.com
According to desertification.wordpress.com,the UNHCR is trying to help. "The only way to fight desertification in the long term is to engage in large reforestation programes." said Andrea Maini, a UNHCR Environmental Officer. The UNHCR plant 300,000 slaping a year in Chad (60% have lived) and locals have planed 1.2 million acacia trees and fruit trees (lemon and mango). UNHCR i
s supplying wood and other sources of fuel so that people will not cut down more trees.
s supplying wood and other sources of fuel so that people will not cut down more trees.google images
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