Ivory Coast stops beating about the bush over deforestation
INTERNATIONAL – Ivory Coast is planting one million trees in forests and cities across the country Friday as part of efforts to restore its primary forests.
The world’s biggest cocoa producer has 3 million hectares of forest cover, compared with 16 million hectares in 1900, according to the forestry ministry. The government estimates that at least a quarter of cocoa production takes place in protected forests.
When measuring loss as a percentage of total primary forest, the biggest decrease over the past 17 years has been in Madagascar and Ivory Coast, according to a study by the Global Forest Watch.
Source: iol.co.za
