Africa's Burning Issue: Charcoal and the loss of forest

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Written By Geoff Hill

Geoff Hill is a Zimbabwean writer working across Africa. In this paper, he explains why reliable energy for Africa is the only way to address the problem of deforestation.

“In Africa, an area the size of Switzerland is cleared of forest every year, with an estimated 90% of the wood used for cooking or to heat the home... There is a need for reliable energy, and at a price local people can afford. Without this, the forest will continue to fall and, ultimately, vanish.”

Africa’s Burning Issue

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Geoff Hill

Geoff Hill is a Zimbabwean writer working across Africa. His media career began at the Manica Post in Mutare in 1980 and he has worked on all six continents.

A life-long conservationist, he has written extensively about the environment, and rescued more than 5,000 snakes from urban homes for release in the wild, catching his first brown house snake at 10 years old and a mamba at 14.

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