Similar to Latin America, deforestation in Africa is driven by the demand for land for agriculture and animal grazing. An added pressure on forest resources in Africa is that wood is the main source of fuel; about 80 percent of all wood used in the region is for fuel. An acute fuelwood shortage affects large areas of eastern Africa.
Why does deforestation in Africa continue to rise and why hasn’t it stopped for the past ten years considering the green movement’s focus on the matter?
Like many rich forests scattered all over the Earth, the population in Africa is among the poorest of all groups. Almost all diseases hover in their lands, and food is scarcely provided for the people. If it is still not known to you, millions of communities perish every year due to malnutrition; and about half of the statistics reveal that the critically distressed and affected nation is Africa.