With demand for firewood soaring due to fuel shortages, there are now concerns that the country’s humanitarian crisis, with millions facing starvation, has compounded the risk of deforestation — threatening both the environment of Yemen and any hope of a long-term livelihood for men in Yemen
Some 5 million trees have been cut down over the past three years across the north
After gas was discovered in the Marib region in the 1980s, wood cutting became limited to remote areas but the war has choked Yemen’s energy output, forcing a reliance first on imports and now on wood from trees more usually used to build homes.
