SHOUT CLIMATE CHANGE AFRICA has a well-structured management; operates from a coordinating centre in Freetown.
With personnel in the regional headquarters and hopes to have focal persons in all districts in Sierra Leone. Over the years, the effect of Climate Change has greatly affected the coastal communities of Freetown especially the God rich to Lakka areas. Sustainable Development Goal 13 requires “Climate Action” since inaction will have a direct consequence on non-development of communities that are affected thereby encourage the circle of poverty.
To undertake “Climate Action” according to the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 13 requires solving those problems that are posed by climate change.
The rampant deforestation of the mangrove is very visible in the rate of reduction of the country’s mangrove. Nearly 40% have been lost over the past 30years.If this trend continues; there will be no more mangroves after the next sixty years.
The mangroves/forest is very important component in the marine/land ecosystem. They serve as sanctuary for birds and home to scores of biodiversity including various mammals, reptiles and amphibians. They help to regulate the soil water content by reducing excessive solar radiation and hence the water content. They also help to reduce the evaporation of the water/sea around them thereby reducing the salt component concentration the increase of which is unfavorable to the fish and usually kill them.
The mangrove trees can also act as a very good carbon sink thereby reducing our carbon emission budget.
The increase in the deforestation of the mangroves especially in the Moyamba district areas of Sierra Leone is very worrisome. The mangroves are a notable place there birds and some land animals also live there. It also regulates the soil water content and salt/water concentration of the sea along the shoreline not to mention its notable role of high absorbility of CO2 and deterrent role to coastal erosion. Its massive reduction is responsible for the reduction of biodiversity especially the mammals, birds, amphibians and reptiles.
This project therefore hopes to mobilize the coastal community and engage them to reforest the mangrove in the four main coastal areas of the Shenga, Bumpehtoke, Tesana and Mupeleh areas of the Kagboroh chiefdom in the Moyamba District.
It will create a short impact employment for the youths of the community, and they will claim ownership and protection for it and the ecosystem of these areas will be restored. Alongside the rehabilitation will include the massive sensitization and advocacy for the community. It will easily be replicated in other coastal places. Land use, climate change will be included in the posters and be used for Exhibition on Wheels in order to reach more people.
