Trees, tech and people help Mozambican park reverse nature losses
Mozambique's Gorongosa National Park is merging science with human-rights conservation to take on global warming
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Mozambique's Gorongosa National Park is merging science with human-rights conservation to take on global warming
From a distance, Mount Gorongosa looks pockmarked. The slopes of this Mozambican landmark were once covered with verdant rain forest. Now, they are scarred by deep holes -- the result of clearcutting that exposed the soil and parched it, leaving only shrubs and grasses. But in recent years, the forest…
The Gorongosa mountain range's natural resources were exploited to the brink of environmental collapse. But in recent years, the forest has been growing back, thanks to a previously foreign crop: coffee. – Photo: AFP
Mozambique fought a bloody war for freedom from Portugal, but after independence in 1975, a civil war ravaged the country until 1992.
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