The Bauchi State Government has expressed concern over the indiscriminate felling of trees for charcoal production, despite existing laws prohibiting such practices. Expressing worries over the development during a state ministerial press briefing on Wednesday, Commissioner for Housing and Environment Danlami Ahmed Kawule lamented that illegal felling of trees without planting replacement tree seedlings, may lead to desertification and environmental degradation across the state. According to him, to mitigate the trend, the government has declared an intervention to reclaim the environment by e…