1. Senegal situation  Senegal is located in the western point of Africa.  Surface area of 197,000km 2, and a population of 10 million estimated to be growing at a rate of 2.7% annually.  The country is located in the Sahelian region, hard hit by many years of drought;  More than 53% of the population lives in rural areas  Senegal has about 6.2 million hectares of forests and woodlands that constitute 32.2 % of the total land area in the mainland.

2. Senegal situation Two seasons:  Long dry season ( six to 9 months depend on the region (November- June)  Short rain season ( three to six, June –October)  The average annual rate of deforestation is 80 000 ha per year ( 0.7 %) or in year 2001 the objective of the national plan was to plant 70 000 ha

3. Senegal difficulties with desertification and deforestation  Climate obstacles  Wood fuel and charcoal consumption in both urban and rural areas is really important, Energie consumption is 60% ensure by wood fuel. Household’s energy need is depend at 90 % on wood fuel. And if we considered, the level of growth of population, the need increase fastly.

4. Senegal difficulties with desertification and deforestation  So for a long time Senegal will depend on forest resource to satisfy his energy needs;  Residual forest resources are submitted to human pressure in particular in the south region where we have actually the residual natural forest  Senegal Export peanuts it represent the second largest export earner in the country. Such kind of extensive monoculture crops degraded lands and creates also a pressure on forest lands

5. Senegal expectations from CDM sink projects - Encourage forest plantation in rural zone by involving local population in the process, Encourage agroforestry practices; - Allow local communities to benefit from forestry project, as they participate on the international efforts to limit global warming (equity concerns); - Use cdm implementation to educate population on climate change adverse effects;

6. Senegal expectations from CDM sink projects  Encourage a sustainable forest management approach in rural and urban zone  Brake the process of rural depopulation;  Allow all UN countries, to have the opportunity to develop a CDM project;.

7. Needs  New conception of forest management/training of forester and forest principal actors  Review the system of data collection and archive of data/database/inventory  New instruments to measure and monitor carbon in the soil and the biomass (spectrophotometer)  Develop pilot forest project regarding CDM approach