01. Question 1

Our Question: If you could choose anyone in the world to be your special climate hero or role model, who would it be?

02. Question 2

Our Question: Magic Johnson said: “I believe in the power of heroes. What is a hero? There are as many different answers to that question as there are people in the world, and that’s a good thing: we need different kinds of role models for different kinds of people. I personally think a hero is a leader who has a positive impact on people. A hero is someone who acts and through those actions changes the world.” – Tell me your definition of a hero.

03. Question 3

Our Question: A group of students thought it would be great to collect portraits of climate heros from all over the world. That’s what they say: “If we show people that if those local climate heros can make the effort, then anybody can. Let them see that what they are doing is rapidly becoming the norm, not the exception. Your climate heros don’t need to be famous. We’d like to show people just like you and me – with the little difference that they care. The goal is to realize an impressive exhibition of portraits from all over the world.” a) What are the most important things people in your country need to change in order to become climate heros? b) Some participants of this projects don’t like the word “hero”. Which other words could we use instead?

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01. Question 1

Our Answer: If we could choose our special climate hero this would be a guy called Alexander Benjamin, this guy planted many trees in the village called KIDENG’EMBE in Tanzania, he also fought against deforestation and changed the lifestlye of people in that village in order to change the future. But also our climate hero can be St. Mary’s secondary school TAYEN Club leaders who are educating other students about climate change. 39.9% —or about 35,257,000 hectares—of United Republic of Tanzania is forested. In total, between 1990 and 2005, United Republic of Tanzania lost 14.9% of its forest cover, or around 6,184,000 hectares. Measuring the total rate of habitat conversion (defined as change in forest area plus change in woodland area minus net plantation expansion) for the 1990-2005 interval, United Republic of Tanzania lost 37.4% of its forest and woodland habitat. Tanzania has some 1898 known species of amphibians, birds, mammals and reptiles according to figures from the World Conservation Monitoring Centre. Of these, 9.0% are endemic, meaning they exist in no other country, and 6.1% are threatened. Tanzania is home to at least 10008 species of vascular plants, of which 11.2% are endemic. 14.6% of Tanzania is protected under IUCN categories I-V. Current environmental issues are: soil degradation; deforestation; desertification; destruction of coral reefs threatens marine habitats; recent droughts affected marginal agriculture; wildlife threatened by illegal hunting and trade, especially for ivory

02. Question 2

Our Answer: For us a hero is not neccessary a super man, a police or a political leader because we believe everyone is a hero as we are all able to do something that can help us all in one way or another. So this does not mean you should have a gun or good skills in fighting BUT a hero is someone who helps, advice, teach and direct his/her colleagues in a good path.

03. Question 3

Our Answer: a) I think people in our country needs to do the following to be real climate heros -Plant many trees everyday -Form National Action Environmental Groups in communities they live -Plant trees around Mount Kilimanjaro -Change lifestlye like using cement blocks instead of trees to build houses in the villages b) -Instead of using the word hero we should use the word SAINT

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