News Headline
‘In 10 years, we might not have forests’: DRC struggles to halt charcoal trade – a photo essay
Source
Guardian (International Edition)
Publication Date
2022-07-20
Every few seconds a handful of reddish clay is scraped out of a bucket, rolled briskly into a ball, coated in charcoal dust and left in the sun to dry. For the past three years, Nzigire Ntavuna, 39, has been making these balls on the outskirts of Kahuzi-Biega national park, in the rainforest in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, to burn as fuel.