Fuelwood Crisis

As if the fuel wood crisis wasn’t enough of a drain on the forests of Africa, there are several other uses for wood that contribute to deforestation and land degradation, such as logging, which is among the major threat to African forests. In 1998 the World Resources Institute (WRI) launched a project called Global Forest Watch (GFW) which combines satellite imagery, geographic information systems, mapping software, and the internet to gather data that will help …

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