Forest of rare trees in Zanzibar now earmarked for ‘eco-resort’

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Forest of rare trees in Zanzibar now earmarked for ‘eco-resort’

MICHEWENI, Tanzania — Botanists have found a stand of rare trees in Tanzania’s Zanzibar archipelago not known to grow wild anywhere else in Africa. The intsia trees (Intsia bijuga) were found growing within moist coastal forest in the north of Ngezi Forest Reserve on the island of Pemba. Worryingly, the area is earmarked for the first phase of a new “eco-resort.” Earthmoving equipment and tipper trucks are already stationed near the forest, Mong…