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 ANCE launches the biodiversity forum in West Africa
Many crops such as such as millet (Pennisetum glaucum), sorghum (Sorghum bicolor), African rice (Oryza glaberrima), cowpea (Vigna unguiculata), bambara bean (Vigna subterranea), yams (Dioscorea cayenensis-rotundata, Dioscorea dumetorum, Dioscorea bulbifera), fonio (Digitaria exilis) and many others (Abelmoschus esculentus, Citrullus lanatus, Solenostemon rotundifolius) originate from West Africa.
Creation of the forum on mangoves
In Togo, mangroves are on the coast in the South-East of “préfecture des lacs” (prefecture of lakes). Their area which was 2600 ha in 1995 is estimated at 960 ha in 2000. Nowadays, this area has considerably decreased and only represents approximately 500 hectares. These ecosystems may disappear about 2015 if nothing is done.
Hippopotamuses threatened for disappearance in Togo
Losing habitat is the first factor which threatens survival of hippopotamuses in the low- plain of Mono. Farmers increasingly transform the natural wetlands landscape for farming. The floodplain is systematically leveled; fallow is burned in the dry season for food crop, market gardening and exploitation for sugar cane, palm oil tree and teak. Thus, migration ways of hippopotamuses are cultured and forests galleries which are other shelters of hippopotamuses along the river are destroyed for their ligneous resources and for space.
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