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title: Zanzibar Fishermen Take Action on 350
date: 2009-10-26T20:34:25Z
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[![](https://farm4.static.flickr.com/3513/4047626560_b8c1d1e2ed.jpg)

](https://www.flickr.com/photos/350org/4047626560/)Okala Mohamed arrived at the 350Speaks Johannesburg summit in June after a gruelling 15-hour journey from his rural fishing village on the coast of Zanzibar, Tanzania. Okala and his fellow fishermen started a marine conservation group that has monitored fish populations on the reefs near his village. This October 24, he held a workshop to educate and mobilize his community about the dangers of climate change to their fishing-based lifestyle. Amazingly, Okala has no acess to internet. And yet, his photos arrived in our inbox just a few minutes ago — he resourcefully linked up with a university nearby to cover the event and make sure the world knows that at least in his village, climate change is a real threat.