Sevidzem Ernestine Leikeki

Sevidzem Ernestine Leikeki (born 1985) is a climate activist from Cameroon and in 2021 was awarded as a BBC 100 Women, for "women who create lasting change". She is a climate and gender activist from the North-West region of Cameroon, and she is the founder of Cameroon Gender and Environment Watch.

Quotes

• "We can't fight the climate emergency if we cannot protect and regenerate our land."
• "My community of 300,000 people depends on nature for livelihood. We find daily solutions in our forest and in our farmlands. But our natural resources face a lot of challenges deforestation, over-exploitation, encroachment and poor soil conservation. And these are made worse by gender inequality, cultural barriers and little or no knowledge about the goodness of nature."
• "Nature remains our greatest ally to reach our climate mitigation targets. Planting trees is essential, but we need to raise a forest generation that will thrive and live in harmony with nature."
  • A "forest generation" living in harmony with nature, October 2020. TED, Retrieved: 29, November 2023.
• "Honey equals income, equals jobs, equals gender equality, equals conservation.”
  • Environmental Hero: Sevidzem Ernestine Leikeki, Lindsey Jean Schueman. January 20, 2022, OneEarth. Retrieved: 29, November 2023.