NFC: boosting community livelihood, environmental conservation

Kampala, Uganda | FRANCIS BYARUHANGA | Rwanda celebrated world forestry day on 21st March at Rubavu district southern Province. The annual celebration seek to deepen planting activities and raising awareness among the communities in villages and young people around. The theme of the day was dubbed “forestry and sustainable cities”. New Forests Company, CEO, Dube Simbarashe explains more about […]

Zimbabwe’s struggling timber industry

ue to a slump in construction and high production costs, the timber industry in Zimbabwe has been struggling to survive. To make things worse, illegal miners in some of the country’s forests have been chopping down trees to make space for their own operations. The BBC’s Taurai Maduna travelled to Vumba in the Eastern Highlands […]

Huge volume of timber lost due to Knysna fire

Fire salvage operation nears end as investment sought in new plantation More than a million cubic metres of timber was lost from South Africa’s annual supply when one of the country’s largestever fires tore through plantations and hundreds of homes between Knysna and Nelson Mandela Bay last year. This is according to MTO Forestry Group […]