Ivory Coast to Spend $1.1b to Rehabilitate Country's Forests

Ivory Coast will spend 616 billion CFA francs ($1.1 billion) over the next 10 years to rehabilitate and regrow the country’s forests that have shrunk as cocoa output expanded, a government spokesman said.

The West African country, the world’s biggest producer and exporter of the chocolate ingredient, had 16 million hectares of forests in 1960, but this has fallen to 3 million hectares, Bruno Kone told reporters in the commercial capital, Abidjan.