date:Jul 12, 2018
Also, some agents tasked to shoo away the farmers also often yield to bribes to give them some leniency to stay.
The Reuters report said the Minister of Water and Forests Alain-Richard Donwahi rejected an interview with the news agency while a spokeswoman has not responded to its e-mails.
In 1960, the country recorded 16 million hectares of forests. This has dropped to 3 million today. Ivory Coast is aiming to recover 20 percent of its forest cover in the next decade.
But if deforestation per