Africa Center#USAfricaLeadersSummit: 🌊 Climate Change
More than 62% of Africa’s rural population rely on the continent’s diverse natural ecosystems for their food, water, energy, health, and secure livelihood needs. This biodiversity is essential not only to Africans but to the health of our planet.
Its loss is also a threat to security.
https://africacenter.org/spotlight/african-biodiversity-loss-risk-human-security/
African Biodiversity Loss Raises Risk to Human Security
Declines in Africa’s rich ecological biodiversity threaten millions of livelihoods, as well as increased food insecurity, conflicts over land, and transmission of zoonotic diseases that can lead to more pandemics.