Talk:Environmental issues in Eritrea

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Merhawie, the link you gave doesn't say anything about any Eritrean government program or figure about Eritrea's forested land. Yom 03:09, 3 April 2006 (UTC)

Thanks. The second link is helpful (says 30% forested in 1900), but the first one doesn't seem to say anything about Eritrean government programs. The only reference to the Eritrean government I could find was this:

With this in mind, the new government of Eritrea has already embarked on a radical decentralization, shifting some of its most talented people out of Asmara to run provincial administrations.

I'm going to remove the third link (punchdown), as I don't think it really contributes anything.

Yom 20:55, 3 April 2006 (UTC)

The link that you deleted [1] is a link to a clearinghouse of information on the stove that reduces wood use. It is much more efficient. That is why I placed the link by the fuel source point. I will wait until later tonight to replace the link.

Merhawie 22:52, 3 April 2006 (UTC)

I know what the link is to, but it's not directly related to the article. It is on a specific stove on reducing wood. The article doesn't say anything about using that stove, just that it has embarked on a program to reduce wood consumption. If you have a link saying the government is specifically employing that wood stove in its attempts to decrease wood use as a fuel, then it is appropriate; otherwise, it is too specific for the stub.

Yom 23:03, 3 April 2006 (UTC)

Yom by the way you also asked me for a source on specific policies. Now thes are not the policy documents themselves but the FAO report on them. FAO Report

Merhawie 23:05, 3 April 2006 (UTC)

I have still not found any specific policies, but I have found this BBC link regarding environmental problems in Eritrea and decreases in wood consumption. [2] Really, what we need is either a government policy quotation, or a secondary source refering to a government policy.

Yom 23:42, 3 April 2006 (UTC)