Water Wheel March/April 2025: Green Skills

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Green skills to help nature repair itself – Training more experts in South Africa and Senegal Feature Africa’s population is growing. This means more landscape change and development of supporting infrastructure. Ecosystems are under pressure, made worse by natural disasters induced by climate change. So writes Matthew Weaver, Sinetema Xoxo and Sukhmani Mantel. In response, governments, scientists and environmentalists are turning their attention to nature-based solutions. These are environmental strategies that aim to address environmental change, including the impact of disasters, climate change, and water and food insecurity. For example, wetlands are a natural resource for humans and create a habitat for wildlife. They filter water and control floods. But they’ve been degraded all over the world, which threatens biodiversity and human livelihoods. Wetland restoration is a nature-based solution. Other examples are reforestation, and setting up green infrastructure in cities, such as urban forests and roof gardens. Nature-based solutions are taking off all over the world.

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