The BBC ran a story on Monday detailing creative ways that women living in the Sahel near the River Niger are stopping the advance of the Sahara desert. These women are reversing the deforestation that worsens the effects of climate change by planting and nurturing eucalyptus trees and creating rice fields. BBC reporter Celeste Hicks comments that, "All this goes some way to showing that an area which is always precariously balanced on the edge of self-sufficiency can continue to support a population if scarce resources are well managed."