Target 3: By 2020, reduce the rate of loss of natural habitats including forests by at least 50%

Forest cover and diversity have been rapidly declining due to expansion of agriculture, unsustainable exploitation of fuelwood, infrastructural developments, uncontrolled fires, invasive alien species and climate change • 60% of Zimbabwe’s wetlands fall within communal and resettlement areas and are prone to high levels of degradation largely due to unsustainable human activities such as overgrazing and cultivation and the impact of climate change