The person in charge of managing protected areas at the Commission of the West African Monetary Economic Union (UEMOA), Cheikh Tidiane Kane, announced on Tuesday, March 14 in Dakar that the effects of climate change are increasing pressure on nearly one million species in protected marine areas Eacute; es from the space of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS).

At the opening of a validation workshop for the Regional Observatory for Biodiversity and Protected Areas in West Africa, the European Union's Environment, Biodiversity and Climate Programme Officer, Baptise Bobillier, invited stakeholders to develop coordinated action by concentrating their efforts on the preservation of protected areas. According to Cheikh Tidiane Kane, within the framework of the implementation of the regional policies of UEMOA and ECOWAS, a number of regional programmes targeting transboundary ecosystems have been implemented to “contribute to the preservation of ecosystems and the improvement of biodiversity in order to enable populations and entities concerned to benefit from them.”

The person in charge of managing protected areas at the Commission of the West African Monetary Economic Union (UEMOA), Cheikh Tidiane Kane, announced on Tuesday, March 14 in Dakar that the effects of climate change are increasing pressure on nearly one million species in protected marine areas Eacute; es from the space of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS).

At the opening of a validation workshop for the Regional Observatory for Biodiversity and Protected Areas in West Africa, the European Union's Environment, Biodiversity and Climate Programme Officer, Baptise Bobillier, invited stakeholders to develop coordinated action by concentrating their efforts on the preservation of protected areas. According to Cheikh Tidiane Kane, within the framework of the implementation of the regional policies of UEMOA and ECOWAS, a number of regional programmes targeting transboundary ecosystems have been implemented to “contribute to the preservation of ecosystems and the improvement of biodiversity in order to enable populations and entities concerned to benefit from them.”