A 2016 FAO report found that natural needle-leaved forests had shrunk to occupy only around 1.5 percent of Afghanistan’s total land area. Illegal logging is an enormous global industry.

Over the past three decades, the U.N. says Afghanistan's forest cover has decreased by about 50 percent — to just about 2 percent of the country's land. The main reason is the illegal harvesting ...

With white-water rivers, broadleaf oak forests at low elevations, and pine forests in the mountains, Kunar was once one of the most picturesque regions in Afghanistan. Its precious deodar timber, ...

Afghanistan’s forests have been another casualty. In the 1970s, the country had extensive woodlands, particularly in the eastern provinces. Today, only 2 percent of that forest cover remains.

KUNAR, Afghanistan—With his hands tight on his machine gun at a remote checkpoint in Afghanistan’s small eastern province of Kunar, the police officer Matiullah Safi kept watch.

The Afghan defense ministry then chose the forest pattern despite the fact that just 2.1 percent of Afghanistan is forest, according to the report. {mosads}The pattern was owned by HyperStealth, ...

People are eating the food grown and hundreds of women are earning an income from cultivating and selling saplings ...

Over the past three decades, the U.N. says Afghanistan's forest cover has decreased by about 50 percent — to just about 2 percent of the country's land. The main reason is the illegal harvesting ...

"Once upon a time when there was anarchy in here, people started cutting down the forest to make money." That was during the 1980s war with the Soviets and the subsequent civil war. Now there is law — ...

Over the past three decades, the U.N. says Afghanistan's forest cover has decreased by about 50 percent — to just about 2 percent of the country's land. The main reason is the illegal harvesting ...