Email a copy of 'Malawi floods at the hands of deforestation?' to a friend
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Email a copy of 'Malawi floods at the hands of deforestation?' to a friend
Malawi President Peter Mutharika has restricted domestic travel by cabinet ministers and senior government officials to eight trips per month,...
In reply to Penny (#17), e-mail it to yourself then you can copy and paste as you wish.
How can I print parts of this excellent article to be able to take with me to read in the villages that I visit? The importance of trees needs to be spread as much as possible; it cannot be left to particular organisations alone – we all need to do what we can and I am happy to read sections but I need to be able to print it.
My take on this one is the government has failed the citizenry as long as the issue of forestration is concerned. The way i understand it is that there is legislation in place for the prorection of all forest reserves. koma kungoyambira nthawi ya mult party plus kuti anthu ufulu tinaumva udyo, we ended up desroting our ferests. makamaka anthu a kwathu ku tyolo, chiradzulu most of the southeen region districts. The way i see it the way forward must be that the government must play its role. enforce the forestry laws and bring to book all those that break… Read more »
Justice pains,Malawi is not controlling its environment (trees) all tregedy of floods is as a result of deforesstation
Forest department kuba..kuyambira director. Pano mukufuna kulanda mitengo ya concession agreement ya raiply.
Lets clear out all the bushes and see. One thing I know is that nature has never lost a fight against humans. U may think u clearing the forest but trust me, u will end before the forest is over. In short, nature has its own way of punishing its destroyers who happen to be you and me.
our country lucks readers as you can see 20 yrs down nothing looks changing in our country is very pity, as we talking now ruling party is busy stealing money preparing how to rig elections.This is a big disease for Malawi. As long peter and his boot linkers eat and sleep.Malawians we are in problems
Over population competing with sand in Southern Region districts is also another indirect cause of floods.
I totally agree with the author, the major challenges affecting forest cover in my opinion by priority are agriculural production, charcoal production, Pit sawing, firewood collection etc. As Govt prioritise expansion in agricultural production there is coresbonding extinction of forests, I don,t know whether we hav agicultural Act that would enforce cultivating along the river bank, steep stopes without putting up conservation measures, what about those doing shifting cultivation, the list goes on. Tobacco production is the worst crop product in as far as deforestation is concerned. ie flue cured tobacco. Visit Kasungu or Mchinji press agric. est.Secondly, on charcoal… Read more »
Its not about the population it is about poverty which is in most cases self inflicted . Most of our people in Malawi are very short sighted when it comes to having the ambition to achieve greater things. Most people in Malawi are satisfied with the hand to mouth kind of living. In some cases ,some just sit pwii waiting for the government to fend for them and they blame the government or their community leaders or they blame the political leadership for their self inflicted problems/poverty. All of us Malawians should change our mindset and start thinking about the… Read more »