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The Great Ruaha River Project

Climate Reslience • Biodiversity Gain • Community Justice • Land Conservation 

In rural Tanzania, we will create a 3,750 acre riverside forest to stop devasting erosion caused by increased rainfall due to climate change

Why is the project critical?

This tranquil scene of the Great Ruaha riverbank is threatened with erosion caused by increasing global warming. The soft sandy earth is being rapidly eroded by ever increasing frequency and intensity of rainstorms coming across from the Indian ocean. Here. the river is low, exposing sandy beds, deposits from the eroded riverbank which is encroaching less than 100 meters from to the local community. With more rainfall it becomes a torrent, speeding up the erosion and threatening to overflow onto productive land owned by smallholder subsistence farmers.  In between the bank and the buildings is a narrow canal which carries water to a local sugar mill, the main employer and for which local farmers grow sugar cane. However, the greatest threat to the river is that it will lose power and flow as it converges with another downstream, suppling a hydroelectric dam and main source of renewable energy.

Solution

Carbonlogical Tanzania has been approached by the local authorities on either side of the river. The Kilosa and Kilombero District Councils whose responsibility it is to find a solution.