Cote d’Ivoire Has Lost ‘Nearly 80 Percent of Its Forest and Wildlife Cover’

How can we protect wild animals when the world’s forest cover continues to shrink? This is just one of the many issues under discussion at the Cop16 biodiversity summit in Cali, Colombia. In West Africa, certain emblematic species such as the elephant are at risk of extinction. The head of the Côte d’Ivoire-based Roots Wild Foundation sounds the alarm.

Hallal Bilal, chair of the Roots Wild Foundation, talks to RFI about the dwindling elephant population in his native Côte d’Ivoire and efforts…