1. Africa’s Environmental Problems

2. Deforestation:
The result of cutting down trees to use for money & free up land for farming.
**Problem: Cutting down trees is eroding (wearing away) the land & leaving it useless for farming.
**Problem: Getting rid of rainforest areas & disrupting wildlife.

3. Water Pollution, etc…
Farmers depend on chemical fertilizers to grow crops
These chemicals end up polluting Africa’s rivers
People tend to live near waters & lakes in Africa because so much of it is dry

4. Desertification Africa suffers from drought (no rainfall)
Drought leads to the problem of FAMINE (shortage of food) & DESERTIFICATION (spread of desert-like conditions) and makes farming impossible
The Sahel is slowly turning into the desert
The Savanna is slowly turning into the Sahel
Before long….most of Africa could be a desert!