00:00Communities along the coastal line of Nigeria are struggling to cope with the heavy rainfall and unstable sandy soils, according
00:08to the United Nations Office for Project Services.
00:12Recently, fishermen gathered for a traveling exhibition, which uses photographs and landscape designs to highlight the growing threat of sea
00:19level rise and coastal erosion across the Gulf of Guinea.
00:23We spend a lot of time in communities like this along the coast of the Gulf of Guinea, documenting what
00:31people have told us about the lived realities of coastal erosion.
00:36And what we have here in the book exhibition is a summary of that research presented in a way that
00:43is accessible to a general audience.
00:45This coastal line along Oramedu in Nigeria is facing land degradation.
00:50The people here are seeing the destruction of their homes.
00:54A cursory glance along the beach shows just how close the creeping shoreline and the boats are to people's homes.
01:02We sleep in fear and wake up in fear because we have no idea when the sea will take over
01:08this community.
01:09The sea gets closer to us every day.
01:11The display features recent photographs of coastal communities in Nigeria, Ghana and Côte d'Ivoire, alongside landscape architecture design, developed
01:20through a three-year research project examining how communities can adapt to climate change.
01:26It taught us how to prevent by planting coconuts and glasses that it will slow down the erosion to come
01:34towards where we are.
01:35According to Dohati, the exhibition explores how landscape architecture can help communities along the Gulf of Guinea respond to sea
01:43level rise, urban flooding and coastal erosion through strategies informed by climate science, public participation and design.
01:51Dohati.
01:52Dohati.
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