Emmerson Njanjamangezi, Group Features Editor 
THE Environmental Management Agency (EMA) says the continuous imposing presence of the Covid-19 pandemic and the ultimate impact of the lockdowns in 2021 increased demand and pressure on natural capital, as more people used the environment as a socio-economic safety net.
In a statement this week, EMA said the increased pressure on the environment resulted in a worsening of environmental degradation related offences.
“Rehabilitation of areas previously degraded through alluvial mining also took centre stage during 2021. Large scale and mechanical alluvial mining or riverbed mining is relatively an economic activity, which spread in earnest from around 2011 across all the eight rural provinces of Zimbabwe, targeting mainly major rivers and their immediate tributaries.
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