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Mozambique: Forest digital project aims to curb illegal logging
2:11 CAT | 11 Mar 2020
Catandica. [File photo: DW]
Mozambique is to digitise forest information available about the country this year with technical support from the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), the organisation announced on Monday as a way of curbing illegal logging.
“By next year, Mozambique will have all the digitised forest information, through the Forest Information System developed with the technical support of FAO,” the UN agency announced in a statement seen today by Lusa.
The system was developed through the MozFIP project, financed by the World Bank and the government of Mozambique through the National Fund for Sustainable Development (FNDS) .
The system is being tested in the provinces of Cabo Delgado and Zambezia, in the north and centre of the country and it is expected that the process will cover the whole country by 2021.
The $47 million MozFIP project was announced in July 2017 to “halt the country’s rapid deforestation” and “create alternative livelihoods for rural communities.
The Mozambican government estimates that the country has lost at least $150 million (€132 million) in timber smuggling.
Source: Lusa
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