Deforestation in Afghanistan

Afghanistanica has an excellent post on deforestation and timber smuggling in eastern Afghanistan:

"It is possibly that the worst of the timber smuggling has ceased due to a combination of (a) shortage of easily accessible trees for the harvesters plus (b) American and Afghan government enforcement. But even presuming that is a fact, there still occurs deforestation due to overgrazing, local use of lumber and the burning of firewood. More problems within a problem within Afghanistan."