In 2023, it lost 4.67 kha of natural forest, equivalent to 3.27 Mt of CO₂ emissions. A slight drop from the previous one, ...

Linet Makwera (28) has a baby strapped on her back as she totters barefoot, picking tiny pieces of wood on both sides of a dusty and narrow road, peering fearfully at people passing by along the road ...

This means deforestation is on the rise ... Mining contributes a huge chunk to Zimbabwe's foreign currency earnings - something the country, which imports nearly everything, desperately needs.