there's both fresh water and salt water in the senegal river delta. nature conservation makes sense here protecting the ecosystem also creates jobs. so that is the goal of the park is to restore the ecosystem and fight public. policy in this region. because the local population distributional work. they harvest whatever nature provides. the local economy is based on fishing and farming. if there's no more water there will be nothing left. to eat. locally caught is hung out to dry in the open air. many villages have no electricity let alone refrigerators fisherman sell their fish across the country and even in neighboring senegal. to be dated and in the past people lived here from farming to. but really fishing makes most sense we can make a living from fishing all year round and they benefit from the loch in the basin there are lots of fish there. the abundance of fish is a recent development thirty years ago the region was left ravaged by this dam built in the one nine hundred eighty s. to supply mauritania senegal gambia and mali with fresh water. i

there's both fresh water and salt water in the senegal river delta. nature conservation makes sense here protecting the ecosystem also creates jobs. so that is the goal of the park is to restore the ecosystem and fight public. policy in this region. because the local population distributional work. they harvest whatever nature provides. the local economy is based on fishing and farming. fish yet if there's no more water there will be nothing left. but this is activity. locally caught to law is hung out to dry in the open air. many villages have no electricity let alone refrigerators fisherman sell their fish across the country and even in neighboring senegal. the point be they them in the past people lived here from farming too. but really fishing makes most sense we can make a living from fishing all year round and they benefit from the lock in the basin there are lots of fish there. the abundance of fish is a recent development thirty years ago the region was left ravaged by this dam built in the one nine hundred eighty s. to supply mauritania seneg

such a small area the pump is located at the border between mauritania and senegal around the senegal river deltathat region is highly vulnerable to climate change. hotel junia henry waxman went to find out more. year for year the sea level here has been rising as locals can see with their own eyes a growing number of them are having to leave their homes along the beach the older generation still remembers what it used to look like here. what you have the village used to be here there were even houses on this very spot before it was all flooded there are probably remains of houses on the seabed over there. under. the village in south mauritania is bordered by a river on one side and the ocean on the other. there's very little infrastructure. but where are local supposed to move to. the dean works in the nearby de walling national park he confirms the gravity of the situation. yeah you might my spoke to an old man who told me that in the one nine hundred eighty s. the ocean was two kilometers further back. now look at the damage that the sea has done. after. the government is trying to ensure that