Between 2010 and 2018, the rate of deforestation worlwide slowed by nearly 30 per cent compared to the previous ten years, according to a key report launched on Tuesday by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). This farmland, once part of Tsitongambaraika forest – one of Mozambique’s few remaining stands of humid lowland forest, made up of 80 to 90 per cent of endemic species and home to five endangered species – was burned in preparation for the next crop.
