Charcoal

Power shortages across the country are fuelling deforestation through the illegal charcoal trade

The country’s woodlands are being deforested to make charcoal because of electricity cuts and as land is cleared for agriculture

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Zambia’s hardwood forests are falling prey to poor villagers who are chopping down trees and surviving off the proceeds from selling charcoal.