Lors de son Conseil Extraordinaire des Ministres tenu ce mercredi 20 juillet 2007, le gouvernément guinéen a pris des décisions importantes en faveur de la protection de l'environnement en Guinée, notamment dans la partie forestière du pays où d'importantes espèces animales et végétales vivent.
Voici à propos un extrait du rapport de ce conseil:
"Le Ministre de l’Agriculture a exposé au Conseil la proposition de recrutement de 1500 gardes-forestiers pour diminuer la pression humaine sur nos ressources forestières. La proposition a été favorablement accueillie par le Conseil et une commission composée du Ministère de la Défense, de l’Intérieur, de la Fonction Publique, travaillera sur le dossier pour élaborer une recommandation à soumettre au prochain Conseil ;
Concernant les incursions des exploitants agricoles et forestiers dans la forêt de Déré, préfecture de Lola, le Ministre de l’Agriculture a présenté un rapport de la conservation de la biodiversité des monts Nimba par une gestion intégrée et participative. Le conseil a recommande qu’une mission interministérielle de l’environnement, de la défense, de la sécurité se rende à Lola pour examiner ces incursions et pour proposer au prochain Conseil des solutions visant à sauver les forêts de Déré qui sont un prolongement des forêts classées de Tiapleu de la République sœur de Côte d’Ivoire "
Au délà de ces bonnes décisions, des mesures d'application concrète doivent suivre pour permettre une protection efficace de nos forêts naturels, principal habitat des espèces globallement ménacées en Guinée.
Dossier à suivre.
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Monday, July 23, 2007
Saturday, July 7, 2007
Key Biodiversity Areas in Guinea
This is a presentation of Guinean Key Biodiversity Areas.
Abstract:
The Guinean Forests of West Africa is one of the most highly fragmented of the 34 global Biodiversity hotspots. Adequately conserving Biodiversity unique to this hotspot requires identification of sites where conservation must be undertaken within the larger region. Two previous efforts to do this have either been data-driven but not multi-taxa (Important Bird Areas) or multi-taxa but not data-driven (West Africa Priority Setting Workshop in 1999). We extended these by identifying Key Biodiversity Areas, sites of global significance for Biodiversity Conservation as a data-driven, multi-taxon approach.
We synthesized and analyzed fine-scale distributional data for 72 globally threatened species across 6 taxonomic groups and identified a total of 28 Key Biodiversity Areas covering 14,748 km2.
With geographic information gained on these sites, we've set the first Guinean Key Biodiversity Areas map.
Unfortunately accurate boundaries of most of these KBAs have not been assessed recently. As the second step of our conservation action, we'd like to demonstrate to decision-makers, using GIS tools, how severe the habitat loss is for threatened species by comparing two periods of time. This work could also help in planning conservation actions within these sites.
http://www.conservationgis.org/ecphistory/Ecp2007PapersC.html
Abstract:
The Guinean Forests of West Africa is one of the most highly fragmented of the 34 global Biodiversity hotspots. Adequately conserving Biodiversity unique to this hotspot requires identification of sites where conservation must be undertaken within the larger region. Two previous efforts to do this have either been data-driven but not multi-taxa (Important Bird Areas) or multi-taxa but not data-driven (West Africa Priority Setting Workshop in 1999). We extended these by identifying Key Biodiversity Areas, sites of global significance for Biodiversity Conservation as a data-driven, multi-taxon approach.
We synthesized and analyzed fine-scale distributional data for 72 globally threatened species across 6 taxonomic groups and identified a total of 28 Key Biodiversity Areas covering 14,748 km2.
With geographic information gained on these sites, we've set the first Guinean Key Biodiversity Areas map.
Unfortunately accurate boundaries of most of these KBAs have not been assessed recently. As the second step of our conservation action, we'd like to demonstrate to decision-makers, using GIS tools, how severe the habitat loss is for threatened species by comparing two periods of time. This work could also help in planning conservation actions within these sites.
http://www.conservationgis.org/ecphistory/Ecp2007PapersC.html
Wednesday, July 4, 2007
WELCOME
WELCOME TO Environment in Guinea!
This blog is meant to give you information related to the protection of Environment and related fields in Guinea, West Africa.
It aims at reducing the lack of information on the issues of Environment in this Country.
We hope that you will find the information you need for your interests.
Best wishes
This blog is meant to give you information related to the protection of Environment and related fields in Guinea, West Africa.
It aims at reducing the lack of information on the issues of Environment in this Country.
We hope that you will find the information you need for your interests.
Best wishes
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