News Headline
In Tanzania, a surge in sesame farming poses threat to natural forest.
Source
Mongabay (India)
Publication Date
2017-03-29
NANJIRINJI A, Tanzania – Patches of scorched earth line the road on the 100-mile drive from the town of Kilwa Masoko to Nanjirinji A village in southeastern Tanzania. A few big tree trunks, some still smoldering, stick out from the ground here and there in what’s known as Lindi region – the only clues that the barren-looking land was once a thriving forest.