Women scatter seeds, restore forests in Guinea, the ‘water tower of West Africa’

Mongabay
Dec 16, 2025, 11:29 pm106 ptsTrending
For Mariame Condé, the seed-collecting work came at a critical time. In January 2022, she was pregnant and nearly out of food. Her husband had left their village to search for gold in Sigiri, a mining area, and their harvest was almost gone, she told Mongabay in a WhatsApp message. That year, Condé collected…

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