1.000 Reasons Save Virunga: #34 Lake Edward’s Fishermen

“Protecting the jobs of the fishermen is extremely important. Fishermen are the bread earners of their fishing villages, of their communities. Poor people are more dependent than the rest of us on Natural resources. A development process that protects the environment is also a development process that takes them into account. That lifts them above the poverty line.”

Magdy Martinez-Soliman, Deputy Assistant Administrator, Director a.i., Bureau for Development Policy, UNDP Source