PAMLOMO-SAUTI YA JAMII

This is what has left with the mountain of Ugele after an extensive charcoal production and firewood collection practiced in the area. UGELE area of peri-urban, Nduli Ward in Iringa Municipal Council is notorious place where charcoal is rampant hence deforestation and forest degradation, ‘The Guardian’ has discovered on Friday. Charcoal is a dominant cooking energy for over 80 percent of urban dwellers across the country. Charcoal burning is mostly illegal, but carried out by local people who have no alternative means of income. The mountains in the left without trees, that is, they bear due extensive charcoal burning, firewood collection and slash and burn which are going on uncontrolled. According to the Ugele-Manyigi locality chairman Jamrus Daudi Mwisaka, mountains in Ugele were covered with natural forests but to economic activities like charcoal burining and firewood collection and farming on the slope of mountains have made that kind of situation today. He said that s...

It is a Sunday Market (Gulio) in Iringa Muncipal Council along Mashine Tatu Street, Iringa Region.