Action on the environment

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'It must stop one day': Outcry erupts over Tunisia's campaign to kill stray dogs

Three young Ivorians launched an app to help farmers make organic fertiliser. (Photos: BioSave, Kouassi Kotchi Willy Ramses.)

Ivorian students launch an app to help farmers make organic fertiliser

These people took part in the 'one birthday, one tree' challenge in Conakry, Guinea. (Photos: ACOREC-Agir Contre le Réchauffement Climatique)

'One birthday, one tree' campaign brings together Conakry residents to rebuild forests

The Soli & Green collective began replanting trees in the Kesra Forest in March 2019. (Photo: Soli & Green)

The tree-planting campaign in a Tunisian forest devastated by wildfires

People all across the world have been responding to a call to pick up litter. (Screengrab from social media)

How the #Trashtag challenge got people all over the world picking up litter

With his organization Tunisie Recyclage, Houssem Hamdi has swapped 21 tonnes of waste for school supplies. (Credit: Tunisie recyclage / Houssem Hamdi).

Tunisian NGO monetizes rubbish to buy kids’ backpacks

Mohamed El Assad (at right) is working to perfect a marine drone that he wants to use to monitor sea turtles living on remote beaches. (PHOTO: VOLTA 100% experience).

Using recycled materials, young inventor makes drone to protect sea turtles

People living in Casablanca have been organising online in an attempt to fight against problems in their city, like dirty streets. (Photos: “Save Casablanca” and “Action Casa”.)

Casablanca residents rally to save the city from rubbish

Congolese student develops eco-friendly charcoal

Jevev, an NGO in Benin, started making bags out of recycled paper.

Benin NGO launches recycled bags ahead of plastic bag ban

BEES, an NGO, takes authorities on a tour of Nokoué Lake and along Benin’s coastal regions to raise awareness about the environmental impacts of fishing and worsening erosion. à ses drones.

Drones map disastrous environmental effects of fishing in Benin

Basétégé Kamagaté poses in his workshop, located in the Yopougon neighbourhood in Abidjan.

Self-taught Ivorian designer turns used tyres into furniture

Screengrab of the video "Summertime Latin Latas & Rotativa / Re-Conectado (Official Video)", posted on the Latin Latas YouTube page.

Colombian band using instruments made out of recycled rubbish

Women's rights, the environment, community projects: five initiatives from 2017 that have stood out.

OBSERVERS TAKE ACTION

Five inspiring stories of our Observers taking action to help the world in 2017

Julien and Antonin are traveling across France to explore the different techniques used by France’s organic farmers. (Photo: “Plants of Tomorrow” Facebook page)

The Frenchmen discovering France’s most innovative farms

Young people from Maâmoura pose with the boat that they made out of recycled plastic bottles. (Photo posted on Facebook)

Tunisia holds the world’s first race with boats made out of recycled materials

On the left, a stuffed bottle, and on the right, a wall made from eco-bricks in progress.

Plastic bottles turned into eco-bricks at Philippines hostels

Sanjeeta Singh Naruka Negi, 51, and Piyush Shah, 58, cycled more than 1000km from Gandhi Ashram to Delhi in order to meet locals along the way and share tips and advice on how to deal with pollution.

The two Indians who cycled 1000km to combat pollution

Meet the South African inventor making bricks out of paper

Have you heard of the “rubbish-selfie”? Guinean blogger Fatoumata Chérif is trying to use photos posted on social media to denounce the heaps of rubbish piling up in her country’s capital.

'Rubbish-selfies': How a blogger is trying to shame Guineans into cleaning up the capital

This image was created by the agency Advise, which launched “Mia Moké”.

Meet the tiny African heroine teaching kids to protect the environment

On the island of Borneo, researchers are helping local communities keep watch on their forest using drones. Photo by our Observer.

How drones are helping save forests in Borneo

These are some of the seeds located in the seed library in Sangouiné, Ivory Coast. All of the photos were taken by Daniel Oulaï.

How a “seed library” is helping Ivorian farmers diversify their crops

Grannies make mattresses for the homeless out of plastic bags

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