Edition El Pais writes that trees are victims of the Lebanese crisis. “It has become very difficult to heat with a diesel engine,” said local residents, who cut down trees that were already difficult to grow in the country’s dry climate.
Lebanon’s energy poverty causes trees to be cut down. Hundreds of oaks, pines, firs and junipers, some of which are hundreds of years old, have been illegally cut down.
Local residents do not even use chainsaws to cut down giants – there is no fuel for it. Wood is used to heat modest homes. For example, firewood began to be widely used in the Lebanese city of Maifuk.
Clean cutting is also done in the Byblos region, one of the most beautiful and mountainous regions of Lebanon. The region is losing centuries-old trees.
in Lebanon in January and. HE. The Minister of the Interior promised to prevent new internal conflicts in the background of the crisis. He added that the armed forces and Interior Ministry staff are ready to resist attempts to fuel sectarian hatred in the country.
Lebanon is the most religiously diverse Arab country: in addition to the Sunni and Shiite Islam traditional for Arabs, there is a large community of Maronite Christians living in the country, as well as Catholics and Orthodox Christians. In addition, ethnic-confessional minorities live in the country – Alevis and Druze.