Artisanal Miners Ruining Already Diminishing Forests in Zimbabwe
Artisanal Miners Ruining Already Diminishing Forests in Zimbabwe
Artisanal miners are cutting down trees to process gold and climate change experts are concerned about the forests. Credit: Jeffrey Moyo/IPS
By Jeffrey MoyoMAZOWE, Zimbabwe, Oct 29 2022 (USNewsRank)
With homemade tents scattered about, hordes of artisanal gold miners throng parts of Mazowe village in Zimbabwe’s Mashonaland Central Province, where they have cut down thousands of trees to process…
