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