JOJ Dakar 2026 : Le comité d’organisation veut planter 100 000 arbres pour des Jeux verts
The Dakar 2026 Youth Olympic Games Organizing Committee (YOGOC), through its Sustainability, Impact & Legacy (SIL) department, organized a Reforestation Day this Saturday at the VDN site. This activity is part of its sustainable legacy strategy.
This initiative is part of the desire to make the Dakar 2026 YOG an event with a strong positive environmental impact.
With environmental protection as a central pillar of its approach, the YOGOC aims to promote a culture of sustainability in the communities hosting the Games. The day was marked by tree-planting activities, environmental awareness raising, and civic engagement.
The goal is to plant 100,000 trees by 2026 in several locations in the capital and at YOG competition venues and to ensure rigorous monitoring of their growth.
"Together with the YOGOC, we planted 114 trees today on the VDN. The ambition is to plant 100,000 to make the Dakar 2026 YOG green Games. Monitoring will be essential and will be done in collaboration with our services and local authorities," said Daouda Ngom, Minister of the Environment and Ecological Transition, who was present at the site.
For Ibrahima Wade, coordinator of the YOG organizing committee, this initiative is part of a responsible approach. "The YOG come with many externalities and potential impacts on the environment. It is therefore important that we commit, alongside the State and the Ministry, to reducing our ecological footprint. This reforestation campaign, which began on the VDN, will continue in several locations in the capital as well as at all competition venues," he maintains.
Commentaires (5)
On aime faire de l' activisme dans ce pays. Si c'est en direction des jeux il fallait le faire depuis pour avoir des arbres mais non attendre quelques mois pour planter
Construisez plutôt des Sites d'hébergement pour les 5000 jeunes athlètes attendus plus réceptifs sportifs. Les JO sont déjà là. Faut pas de report surtout comme à l'africaine. Diagna tu es où ?
Y'aura report si rien n'est fait pour l'hébergement correct des jeune athlètes. Ils pensent utiliser l'université Amadou Moctar Mbow pour le village olympique. Mais je ne pense que cet endroit soit validé par le comité olympique
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L’action est louable mais il faut assurer l’arrosage et ne pas le laisser exclusivement aux mairies. Elles n’ont pas les moyens financiers
Il est temps de commencer il reste 250 jours
Ça fait 400 arbres par jour à planter hohoho c est bien les projets
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