Douala:Indiscriminate waste dumping discouraged

The Environment Week ended in the Littoral Region with a call to revisit attitudes toward nature.

Ludovic Ngbwa, the Secretary General in the Littoral Governor’s Office, has warned against practices that degrade the environment: “If we destroy the environment, we will suffer and even die, but the world remains.”

The past 50 years have witnessed a change in the attitude of man to nature, especially with a constant degradation of the environment, Ludovic Ngbwa noted.

The Secretary General, who was speaking at the end of the Environment Week in Bonanjo, Douala, on June 7, 2016, warned against indiscriminate dumping of waste, among other attitudes.

The Environment Week began on June 1, 2016, on the theme: “Getting rid of your wild instinct in order to protect life.”

It saw the organisation of public discussions, exhibitions and symbolic tree planting by the Secretary General in the Camwater head office in Koumassi, Douala.

Sidi Baré, the Littoral Regional Delegate for Environment, Protection of Nature and Sustainable Development, read highlights of the speech of the United Nations Secretary General on the occasion of the 44th World Environment Day on June 5, 2016.

Particular attention was drawn to the millions of animal and plant species that are on the verge of extinction, necessitating urgent preservation measures and action to end the illicit trade in animal species. Sketches by Douala University students were presented with the aim of discouraging poaching and the random dumping of waste.

Material, mainly trashcans, from Société Générale de Surveillance, SGS, was also donated to some schools in Douala.