Environmental Impacts On Darfur
- Created by: Mellissa True
- Created on: 20-11-13 11:11
View mindmap
- Environmental Impact on Darfur
- Cause and symptom of conflict
- Desertification (pop growth/climate change) has led to fight over scarce resources
- Continued Deforestation
- 1.Lack of Government control
- amount of tree felling not controlled due to break down of law and order
- So little resources means UN and private aid groups are struggling to devise a 'Do No Harm' policy
- 2. Making Bricks
- A lot of wood and water needed to fire kilns
- destroys habitats, increased soil erosion, desertification
- 52000 trees burnt each year
- A lot of wood and water needed to fire kilns
- 3. Timber used to build IDP camps and relief workers accommodation
- 2.8 displaced, timber needed to make shelters
- 4.Replacing Homes
- Wood needed to build homes after war, 12/16 million trees needed
- 5. Corruption
- Government sponsered militias profited from selling different kinds of hard wood eg, mahogany
- accelerated deforestation
- Government sponsered militias profited from selling different kinds of hard wood eg, mahogany
- 1.Lack of Government control
- Damage to Land
- 1. Grazing land burnt by SLA rebels, migration routes blocked by conflict leading to over grazing
- 2. Farms and Villages burnt by Janjaweed
- Pollution of water table, sever soil errosion
- Water Depletion
- Aid groups dug bore holes to provide water
- mostly hard rock so rain water washes away
Comments
No comments have yet been made