Is slash-and-burn agriculture shrinking Africa’s forests away?

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The severity of fires in the Amazon has prompted a global outcry. Amid the protest, some are questioning how this compares with the rest of the world. They claim there are more fires in Angola and the Democratic Republic of Congo than in the Amazon forest. But ‘in Africa, deforestation is primarily the result of commercial logging or other practices like palm oil cultivation,’ has said Denis McClean from the UN Disaster Risk Reduction. Listen to his interview on BBC Newsday. (Picture: Slash-and-burn in Ghana. Credit: Arterra/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)