The Democratic Republic of Congo is home to the world’s second largest rainforest. But this rainforest is in danger. Every year, DRC loses half a million hectares of its forest. That’s partly because people are cutting down trees to produce charcoal. But there could be a solution to the massive deforestation.
In Tanzania, the extensive deforestation of one island has been turned around. Located in Tanzania’s Zanzibar Archipelago, the tiny island of Kokota measures only one square kilometer and is home to several hundred people.
Two decades ago, its trees all but disappeared. But Kokota’s forests have now come back from the brink.
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Didn't Russian gas become cheap, when will they get their fair share?
All foreign aid to poor nations should require that they stop deforestation by their farmers. It won't be easy, but it must be done.
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am thinking about small community solar heaters
Wow! It's takes a great man with a great vision to see through.
God continue to bless you more and more man of Tanzania for your good work with the children for their support👏👏👏.
China is causing the deforestation
The solution is simple. Plant more trees than you chop.
Its simple! Where I live… Every tree is chopped for firewood as far as the eyes can see and beyond
The world is doomed, we went over the tipping point, the point of no return
WHAT??? I thought Africa contributed ZERO carbon emissions and it's all the white man's fault!
DW obsession with Africa is very funny. The whole continent of Africa produces way less Carbon emissions than Germany but Africans are the ones that need to be GREEN. Please stop your foolishness.
What is doing Poland right now….
So 9/20 people use charcoal. That's…… We need to put into action making charcoal from other materials such as rice husk
The charcoal gangs in Haiti completly denuded the country's forests. Now that have set their sights on the Dominican Republic.
It’s obviously because they are cutting down the trees & producing so much CO2 but they don’t care about the climate or the animals so they will just keep killing the forest till there is no forest left & then they will be playing the victim card
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The Chinese, that’s easy.
Better still, is tomake charcoal from coconut and other agro-product waste into charcoal.
What did they have in that stove [SIGIRI] 0:33? There was Charcoal and something else. Just curious.
The funny thing about sabotage by imperial powers and systems is the oppressed will do them then look now, we all suffer, such is the spirit of conquest, so cannibalistic 🤔☠️✊🏾🤐😳
Let the government go into reforestation planting trees to avoid flooding when big typhoon comes, only the government can proclaim regulatory order to the community especially those who are engaged in wood industries
How many years this charcoal trees could be harvested and how many families buy this in a minimal prices because this is a local production
the people of Africa should stop whining, and start making smart decisions about their future. almost every female gives birth to 6-12 kids there, with no ability, what so ever to provide them with enough food. that's where the west is at fault. instead of letting them deal with the consequence of their decisions, the west is doing its best to support those kids, and the cycle continues.
stop giving them fishes. start teaching them how to fish. otherwise, the situation in Africa will never change
Germany space agency monitoring heatwaves starting from Africa signaling Africans starting in France.
Clean coal!
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The pristine forest will not regrow in multiple life times. This is so unsustainable – I can't
Using charcoal for cooking also causes C02, which is a radicalism of global warming argument, Claude Lévi-Strauss a French anthropologist said that people became civilized when started cook meals God of fire Prometheus' immortal liver every day eaten by Eagle. You take one big steel mill in China and coal consumption and compare it to all African charcoal consumption for meal preparation and you see that cooking has no impact on Co2 level at all.
The only way to save earth is by reducing human populaation , i think 1 bln people is enough for this plant….
Every day the human total population grows with 210 thousand people, and they will all need wood, we need to take fewer children