Africa-Press – Angola. The Forest Development Institute (IDF) in Huambo province plans to plant, as of next September, 50,000 eucalyptus, cedar and pine seedlings, as part of the forestry population and repopulation campaign.
Yesterday, the head of the IDF in this region, Brígida Cândida, informed that 25,000 of the total planned plants are already available in the institution’s nurseries, with the aim of being planted in the next forestry season, which begins in September.
He explained that the trees in question should be planted in all municipalities in the province, mainly in Caála, Cachiungo, Chicala-Cholohanga, Ecunha and Huambo, with areas of greater concern in terms of forest depopulation and indiscriminate cutting of plants.
He recalled that, in the past forest season, the institution had planted 36,000 eucalyptus, pine and cedar trees.
Brígida Cândida highlighted the participation of civil society organizations in the forest repopulation process.
Infractions and irregularities
The official informed that the institution recorded, from June 2021 to the present date, 26 infractions and irregularities, which resulted in the collection of 20 million kwanzas, with the application of fines.
The infractions, he said, included the illegal possession and transport of 345 cubic meters of eucalyptus wood confiscated and sold by the Ministry of the Environment at auction.
Between 2006 and 2018, at least 20,000 hectares were devastated in Huambo province, with emphasis on the Sanguengue forest perimeter, in Cachiungo municipality, and Sandenda, in Caála.
The other planted forests that also lost part of their trees are those of Cuima, in the municipality of Caála, and Mundundo, in the municipality of Ucuma.
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