This 1 and half hour webinar connects highlights the biodiversity collapse issues within the Francophone region. It delves into linking how human actions drive the climate crisis and how we as the Catholic community can take action to address it. This event comes right after the Pre-COP meeting in DRC that brought together scientists working in the areas of forests, water resources, climate change, climate finance, and related disciplines, to reflect on the contribution of the forests of the Congo Basin and other tropical basins to the fight against climate change, and mostly the effective ways to ensure their conservation.