I am Tunza Edwin,an advocate, an African, a villager community. Today ,i am very worried for this little stream which I use to swim and fish inside is fast drying up, before I could drown inside but if we not careful our children may not even see it.
I Am a native of a small village in the North West Region of Cameroon called Mbatu,many years ago(14yrs) I migrated to city of Buea and
Yaounde respectively in search of better education and social amenities
of life. In this village are streams use to overflow fill
with mud fish and other water animals soils were fertile and we had
much harvest in both the dry and rainy season.we had traditional
calendars and could tell when they rains would and knew exactly when we
could plant our crops. There use to be plenty of water for house chores
,to drink and to irrigate our farmlands. Even in the dry season we had
beauty green sceneries and constant availability of fresh water protected by trees.
Of recent friends, an emergency took me home and as an ambassador I was shock and curious about the many changes and devastating environment ,so started dipping deep asking questions and visiting sites saw climate change at my nostrils, it was an inconvenient truth.
The
waters I use fly and bounced in them when swimming could not reach my
knees, they were equally heavily polluted and no longer drinkable. I saw
villagers travel for miles in search of drinking water. The environment
became new in my eyes, the beautiful scenery where no more even the tasteful mud fishes were no where to be found. The sun has scourge the land aand the soils were deserted and cranky. Crops were stunted
while those that were planted did not geminate for the rains did not
show up as expected. Farmers look confuse in their activities due to all
this uncertainties. Some had worked and planted, others worked but still waiting for rains.
My curiosity, took me to the river banks where most of the problems lie, much farming has encroach there and watersheds have been destroy and the streams were expose to intensive solar radiation.Most tree plants and fruit trees in this community have been cut down fuel and
use as firewood and barriers to reduce evaporation rates.Again,I
witness great loss of biome through poor farming techniques.
I visited stock houses and there were no stocks like in our days where there use threshing floors of corn harvest and others. Most farmers were eating their seeds.
I
was worried, because the people were not concern or realize the
adversity of what what was happening in their immediate environment,
they were indeed the cause.
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Mindfull of global evironmental challenges,climate change,and conservation, we areout to create awareness by empowering and engaging people especialy with resourceful evironmental that would help them to be commited to their environment Our slogan is my environment ,my responsibility.
CLIMATE CHANGE AT MY NOSTRILS.
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