Charcoal harvesting and Ivory Coast's rainforests
Electricity is a luxury in war torn Ivory Coast but for the poor charcoal is the cheaper alternative.
Now
environmentalists are warning that one of West Africa's remaining
rainforests is disappearing at an alarming rate because of increased
industrial logging and people cutting down trees to make charcoal - the
only fuel they can afford.
Al Jazeera's Haru Mutasa reports from Guiglo.
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