In 2019, the Zimbabwe highlands was devastated by Cyclone Idai. The deforestation of the once sacred forests forsaken in the name of commercial plantations, has left the area without its natural guard against major erosion and flooding, vulnerable to the wrath of Idai.

Healthy catchments are biological assets which mitigate the severity of dam- age caused by cyclones and floods. The Kukura loo acts as a nucleus for their restoration. How it does so is two-fold; firstly, by using alien wood cleared from catchments as the basis for all building materials, and, secondly by using fertilizers produced for the regeneration of topsoils and indigenous plants.