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Ethiopian Forestry Cooperative Scoops Prestigious Green Award on World Environment Day

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A forestry cooperative group in Danno, Ethiopia, has received a prestigious green award from the President of Ethiopia on World Environment Day. The group is part of a Participatory Forest Management Project supported by the NGOs FARM-Africa and SOS Sahel.

The national awards were given to those who have made an exceptional environmental contribution in Ethiopia.

The Danno Cooperative, based in Chilimo Forest, received the Civil Society Green Award at the National Palace in Addis Ababa for the significant impact it has made on rehabilitating a degraded area of forest where illegal logging had been common. They encouraged the regeneration of indigenous tree species and put a halt to the destruction of this fragile ecosystem.

In his speech, President Girma Wolde Giorgis said that World Environment Day was an appropriate occasion to acknowledge those who have contributed to environmental conservation in Ethiopia. The country has recently seen serious flooding that took the lives of many and left thousands homeless in the east and south of the country. The President asked that all Ethiopians to join hands to make the country and the world a better place to live in.

The Participatory Forest Management Project aims to encourage the Ethiopian Government and local communities to manage forests in partnership. This project assists communities to build alternative livelihoods that are not damaging to the local environment for those people living in and around the fragile forest. The project began in 2002 and has implemented field projects in Bonga, Chilimo and Borana forests.

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