I found these words on the back of Pedro Capela’s book of poetry and wildlife flowers of Mozambique:
“Unrealistic, beautiful, useless, deep, a perfect organised suicide.”
During the 15 years O’D and I have spent in the forest of the Nhamacoa, we have seen these words played out before our eyes
The destruction of the beautiful indigenous forest of Mozambique
the Mozambicans rush like lemmings to their destruction, refusing to be pulled back from the abyss.
Living only for the day and not caring about the future; they appear blind to the fact that forest resources are finite and if they don’t look after it, their cooking pots are going to remain cold.
You can reforest the vast tracks of emptiness but while it takes 5 minutes to cut down a tree, it takes between 40 – 60 years to grow an indigenous forest.
In the meantime, the habitat is gone, the animals become extinct, the fauna and flora die.
Exotic or plantation timber such as quick growing eucalypt or pine isn’t the answer as these so not produce the same conditions for the original flora and fauna that has been displaced by the destruction of the original forest.
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