Despite incentives encouraging communities against wanton cut down of trees, Zomba Plateau forest reserve still under threat
* Zomba Forest Lodge’s environmental conservation programme, TREEZ sponsors 17 groups, who each have designated areas and each of them is given an amount of money equivalent to the number of trees in their area * This means that the more trees there are, the more money the groups receive — but despite the incentive, the wanton cutting down of trees is continuing By Duncan Mlanjira Distressed by the high rate of wanton cutting down of trees on Zomba…
