Blogs & Ecology

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photo by the World Resources Institute

We reported recently about Africa’s changing environment due to climate change. Well, here’s another way in which Africa is changing: Natural Resource Consumption.

According to a report presented at the African Ministerial Conference on the Environment this week, even though the average African has an Ecological Footprint of about 1.1 hectares. For comparison the global average is 2.2 hectares and the US average is about 9.7 hectares. ...