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 by AFP Staff Writers Niamey (AFP) July 6, 2022
Non-governmental groups in Niger Wednesday urged Nigeriens to use less wood to grill their mutton during the Muslim festival of Eid al-Adha this year to save precious trees. They pleaded with them to replace wood with locally mined coal at barbecues to mark the festival due to start at the weekend, called Tabaski in West Africa. The capital Niamey alone consumes "around 50,000 tonnes" of wood -- or the equivalent of 25,000 trees -- each year for the feast, the environment ministry has said. "Mutton barbecues during Tabaski cause abusive wood consumption, which simply cannot continue with the climate crisis," Sani Ayouba, the coordinator of one of the groups taking part in the campaign, told AFP. Two-thirds of Niger is covered by desert, and each year the land-locked country loses more than 100,000 hectares (1,000 square kilometres) of arable land to desertification, the government says.
Brazil sets new six-month Amazon deforestation record Sao Paulo (AFP) July 1, 2022 Deforestation of the Brazilian Amazon reached a record level during the first half of 2022, the INPE national space agency said Friday. The world's largest tropical rainforest lost 3,750 square kilometers (1,450 square miles) of jungle since the beginning of the year, the worst numbers for that period since record-keeping began in 2016. The previous worst figure of 3,605 square kilometers was set last year. The new figure does not even include the final six days of June. This year has se ... read more
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