Mozambique: District submits plan to remove communities from Mecuburi Reserve area

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Mozambique: District submits plan to remove communities from Mecuburi Reserve area

5:00 CAT | 02 Sep 2020

File photo: DW

Government officials in the Mecubúri district in Nampula are concerned about the gradual erosion of the Mecubúri forest reserve area over recent years.

According to Radio Mozambique, District Administrator Augusto Chalamanda said that “in addition to the communities that live inside it, the reserve – the largest in Mozambique and the second largest in Africa – is continually being invaded by people in search of forestry resources, especially wood”.

But it would not be easy to control illegal loggers while there were communities living inside the reserve, he said.

Chalamanda said, to address the issue of deforestation, his executive [the district administration] had already drawn up and submitted to the [Nampula] provincial government a plan to move communities outside the perimeter of the reserve.

Source: Rádio Moçambique