A final note on Africa, water and trees
In this blog, we have explored many case studies and topics related to water, environmental change and trees. From a Netflix documentary, the impacts of deforestation on the African hydrological cycles, the Green Wall Initiative to the impacts of Agroforestry in the Sahel and South Africa and those of elephants in mitigating climate change, this blog has covered a range of topics. Trees play an important role in Africa in having a balanced hydrological cycle and mitigate the effects of climate change. As we explored in one of the first blog posts , deforestation in the Congo Basin (one of the great rainforests of our planet ) has far reaching consequences on the monsoon patterns across the continent. Understanding the relationship between trees, water and environmental change in Africa would allow for better future planning and mitigation towards detrimental environmental change. Water tree. Source: freedigitalphoto A recent study conducted in Malawi found that in the first decade of