‘Tackle weak forest law compliance and enforcement’

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• Watcher 11 years ago

  "Dr Thiombiano identified illegal logging, timber smuggling, and trade of illegally-sourced timber in the forest sector, as major problems in many tropical West African countries, including Ghana."
  
  OK, so what about the le ...
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  "Dr Thiombiano identified illegal logging, timber smuggling, and trade of illegally-sourced timber in the forest sector, as major problems in many tropical West African countries, including Ghana."
  
  OK, so what about the legal Shea harvesting-not the income-generating fruit, but increasingly, cutting the trees for charcoal fuel and not replanting? Act 571, which established the Forestry Commission of Ghana as a corporate body and mandated the commission to protect and regulate the utilization of forest and timber resources, failed to include shea, dawadawa and baobab trees. And yes, the government wants to promote LPG gas instead... but nothing in Ghana is reliable and prices only increase

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• Alexander Illi 11 years ago

  The Forestry Commission still issues permits for e.g. rosewood.
  
  Under the pretense, that it were for salvaging, and that the trees were already lying there. (While the truth is, that they were freshly cut by chainsaw opera ...
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  The Forestry Commission still issues permits for e.g. rosewood.
  
  Under the pretense, that it were for salvaging, and that the trees were already lying there. (While the truth is, that they were freshly cut by chainsaw operators).
  
  An excellent, in-depth article covering this:
  ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/features/artikel.php?ID=313635
  
  
  At Tema harbour, containers with expensive rosewood were confiscated, only to "disappear" (sold) under the watchful gaze of the Harbour Authorities.
  
  Chiefs give concessions, and youths get equipped with chainsaws by the smugglers.
  
  Such incidents show about the lack of seriousness many Ghanaian authorities still attribute to the problem.
  
  One day they will wake up and see clearly.

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