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Africa-Press<\/a> – Malawi<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>The Department of Forestry will harvest pine trees on Zomba Mountain, saying the trees have outlived their lifespan and are not adding value to the beauty of Zomba Mountain.<\/p>\n

Director of Forestry Clement Chilima has confirmed to the media about the exercise which will start next week and will see trees covering 32.4 hectares being felled.<\/p>\n

Chilima said the old trees are failing to supporting water conservation hence they should be replaced with new ones. The replanting exercise will start during the next rainy season.<\/p>\n

\u201dThis is an important exercise which will help to remove all pine trees which have matured and have outlived their life span and replenish them with trees that will add beauty and help in water conservation within the catchment of Mulunguzi Dam and surrounding areas,\u201d Chilima said.<\/p>\n

According to Chilima, the department will issue licences Mulunguzi and Chivundi Cooperatives to harvest trees that are over 40-years-old. Endangered species are expected to be spared during the exercise. The Department planned to carry out the exercise in April but this was delayed because they wanted to do it in a proper manner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Malawi. The Department of Forestry will harvest pine trees on Zomba Mountain, saying the trees have outlived their lifespan and are not adding value to the beauty of Zomba Mountain. Director of Forestry Clement Chilima has confirmed to the media about the exercise which will start next week and will see trees covering […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":2795,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5,25,7,8],"tags":[233,371,1260,1258,234,408,1259],"class_list":["post-2796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-economy","category-featured","category-head-lines","category-homepage-english","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-malawi","tag-department-of-forestry","tag-forestry","tag-malawi","tag-trees","tag-zomba-mountain"],"yoast_head":"\nDepartment of Forestry to harvest 32.4 hectares of trees at Zomba Mountain - Malawi<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Department of Forestry will harvest pine trees on Zomba Mountain, saying the trees have outlived their lifespan and ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/department-of-forestry-to-harvest-32-4-hectares-of-trees-at-zomba-mountain\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Department of Forestry to harvest 32.4 hectares of trees at Zomba Mountain\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Department of Forestry will harvest pine trees on Zomba Mountain, saying the trees have outlived their lifespan and ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/department-of-forestry-to-harvest-32-4-hectares-of-trees-at-zomba-mountain\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Malawi\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-07-23T17:43:19+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/malawi\/sites\/36\/2021\/07\/img-60fafe6e5fd7d.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"780\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"405\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/department-of-forestry-to-harvest-32-4-hectares-of-trees-at-zomba-mountain#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/department-of-forestry-to-harvest-32-4-hectares-of-trees-at-zomba-mountain\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Department of Forestry to harvest 32.4 hectares of trees at Zomba Mountain\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-07-23T17:43:19+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/department-of-forestry-to-harvest-32-4-hectares-of-trees-at-zomba-mountain\"},\"wordCount\":198,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/department-of-forestry-to-harvest-32-4-hectares-of-trees-at-zomba-mountain#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/malawi\/sites\/36\/2021\/07\/img-60fafe6e5fd7d.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Malawi\",\"Department of Forestry\",\"Forestry\",\"Malawi\",\"Trees\",\"Zomba Mountain\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"economy\",\"Featured\",\"head lines\",\"homepage-english\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/department-of-forestry-to-harvest-32-4-hectares-of-trees-at-zomba-mountain#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/department-of-forestry-to-harvest-32-4-hectares-of-trees-at-zomba-mountain\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/department-of-forestry-to-harvest-32-4-hectares-of-trees-at-zomba-mountain\",\"name\":\"Department of Forestry to harvest 32.4 hectares of trees at Zomba Mountain - 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