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    Yahoo! News: As Desert Encroaches, Niger Turns to Natural Gas

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Niger has been forced to look to natural gas for its energy as massive deforestation is causing huge desert encroachment throughout the country

by: Erica Mills

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Press Notes, Africa

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Yahoo! News: As Desert Encroaches, Niger Turns to Natural Gas

Threatened by the advance of a desert that already covers two-thirds of Niger, the poor Sahel nation hopes to halt rapid deforestation by promoting natural gas.

Giant billboards, media ads starring local celebrities and door-to-door campaigns extol the virtues of gas and alert people to the ecological dangers of unchecked deforestation.

What is more, the government is offering financial incentives to persuade people to drop age-old energy habits.

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