Efforts Must be Redoubled to Raise Awareness of the Importance of Preserving the Environment

The Minister of Environment, Ms. Lalia Camara, stressed that the anniversary of World Environment Day is an occasion to raise awareness and awareness of the population and urge them to redouble efforts to protect their environment, explaining that it is noticeable that there is a significant rise in temperatures due to the overexploitation of natural resources and climate change.
She added during a statement to the office of the Mauritanian News Agency, that the site “Agargar”, which was chosen to host the activities of the World Environment Day, represents a spacious space for biological diversity, and at the same time represents an ideal site for biodiversity that must be preserved like other historical sites and spaces in the country, calling on Mauritanians to turn to tourism to explore national capabilities in this field and to identify the conditions in which the population lives in these areas under high temperatures.
She explained that this year’s World Environment Day bears the slogan of combating desertification, but the ministry decided to add another activity related to the formation of committees for the collective management of the environment, which is a decentralized participatory management of natural resources, which was approved by the German Agency for Technical Cooperation, which makes every Mauritanian citizen concerned with protecting his environmental environment through these committees, which work under the tutelage of municipalities and in coordination with provincial governors.
The Minister said that this approach has given encouraging results in preserving natural resources in the areas of experimentation, which is a work that every Mauritanian must do in his region as a farmer or grower without relying on others, and the process of protecting and restoring land and preserving biodiversity is the responsibility and role of every citizen, but he also needs to benefit from the techniques and methods to be followed.
She pointed out that work is underway to provide butane gas to every household to reduce the pressure on forest resources, which is the only way to protect these sources, given that most families in the region rely on wood and firewood for cooking.
Logging and charcoal can bring money, but future repercussions for natural resources and for rural people whose daily lives are linked to these resources, she said, requiring collective action to achieve the desired goals.