Zambian forest reserve rebounds with a little assistance
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By Ryan Truscott on 20 June 2024 Conservationists and farmers have restored large parts of a forest reserve in Zambia in just four years through natural regeneration. The Katanino Forest Reserve had lost more than 58% of its forest cover by 2019, when dozens of families living inside it and cutting trees to make charcoal were finally evicted by state officials. A restoration project launched that same year by conservation group WeForest and local partners has used assisted natural regeneration, a light-touch forest restoration method, to grow back more than 500 hectares (1,240 acres) of the reserve’s tree cover. The...