Madagascar guides fret about the future as loggers destroy forests


  • World
  • Saturday, 13 Oct 2018

VOHIBOLA, Madagascar (Reuters) - In Vohibola forest in the east of Madagascar, tourist guide Nabe worries about his future as slash-and-burn farming and decades of logging slowly destroy his livelihood.

"In 2017, loggers set fire to this reserve and roughly 20 percent or more of the forest got burned, so we found that several animal species were burned to ashes in it," he said.

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