Rwanda: Forest conservation calls for carrot and stick

Rwanda has made the protection of its remaining forests a priority, and set a target of increasing forest cover to 30 per cent by 2020 – a goal it seems set to achieve well ahead of schedule.
The country is still losing precious primary forest – the almost complete destruction of the Gishwati Forest in the northwest between by people displaced by the genocide is an example – but this is offset by the aggressive campaign against unsustainable use of forests while promoting tree-planting across the country.