Angola: Environment Deputy Minister Suggests New Sources of Energy

The deputy minister of Environment, Mota Liz, on Wednesday warned that Angola should identify other sources of energy for the population, mainly for those ones in rural areas, if it wants to continue lessening the desertification phenomenon.
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The official, who said so in an ceremony to commemorate the World Day of Fighting Against Desertification and Drought, considered as worrying the situation in the country, mainly in the southern area, in which, he said, there is an excessive exploration of trees for wood and coal production, besides the destruction of plants for agricultural purposes.
He reminded that the cutting of trees for coal and wood production have an important meaning to desertification, suggesting, thus, the need for
replenishing forests with trees, in an intensive way, to avoid the spreading of deserts in Angola.
"If we have no response to give, like other sources of energy and the rational exploration of mineral resources, we might stimulate this tendency instead of contradicting it", he said.
Mota Liz reminded the fact that there is a growing absence of trees from Namibia desert to Angola's central Benguela Province.