Yemen: Yemen’s Forests Another Casualty of War amid Fuel Crisis

May 9, 2019 | Adel Aldaghbashy, SciDev.Net
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The four-year conflict in Yemen which has pushed huge swathes of the population close to famine has also left the country with a severe fuel crisis. Now environment officials are warning that millions of trees are likely being lost as a result of excessive firewood gathering by communities facing an acute shortage of natural gas.