The government of The Gambia remains committed to sound environmental management and has attached a great deal of interest to the preservation and utilisation of our forestry resources, the director of the Department of Forestry, Sambou Nget reaffirmed Wednesday.
Speaking during a day's forum on bushfire management in The Gambia, organised by the Regional Project on Sustainable Management of Endemic Ruminant Livestock in West Africa (PROGEBE-Gambia) at a local hotel in Kololi, Nget said The Gambia as a country suffers greatly from bushfires that virtually burn the whole vegetation cover on an annual basis. This, he lamented, results to the reduction of grazing and fodder material for animals, loss of livestock and other important fauna and flora including their habitats as well as agricultural produce, the destruction of settlements and loss of human lives.
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