Tanzanian forests

The Royal Botanic Gardens in Edinburgh has been awarded £200,000 to begin a new project saving Tanzanian forests.

In Africa the pressures on forest resources are enormous. An estimated 73 per cent of the population is dependent on biofuels, African cities experience the highest urbanisation rate in the world and timber is exported to generate foreign revenue. Tanzania, in particular, faces massive forest degradation problems due to unregulated logging and this problem is increasing at an alarming rate.