Logging

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Goaso Forest Reserves Under Threat

From January 2017 to date, a total of 137 chainsaw machines and 29 truck-load of illegal lumber have been seized by the...

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Gonjas Armed Task Force To Hunt Down Rosewood Loggers

leadership of the Gonjaland in the Northern region has declared war against illegal timber merchants and commercial...

Business

MP Alarmed At Increased Rate of Illegal Felling of Rosewood

The Member of Parliament (MP) for Builsa South, Dr Clement Apaak, has expressed alarm at the increased rate of illegal...

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Chiefs and Police In the Northern Region Accused of Championing Illegal Logging

What used to be a practice in the West and North Gonja districts of the Northern region is gradually creeping into the...

Business

Minister Directs Forestry Commission

Mr John-Peter Amewu, the Minister of Lands and Natural Resources, says there is a ban on export of Rosewood across the...

Business

Government Bans Export of Rosewood, Stops Issuance of Permits

John-Peter Amewu, the Minister of Lands and Natural Resources, has revealed a ban has been placed on the export of...

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Gov’t Bans Export of Rosewood, Stops Issuance of Permits

John-Peter Amewu, the Minister of Lands and Natural Resources, has revealed a ban has been placed on the export of...

Headlines

Myanmar Makes Record Seizures of Illegal Timber

Myanmar seized a record amount of illegal timber this financial year as part of a government clampdown to protect the...

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Tree Crushes Chainsaw Operator

A 62-year-old chainsaw operator met his untimely death when a tree he was felling in a cocoa farm crushed him. The...

Politics

Bawku Youth Give Authorities 2-Week Ultimatum Over Forest Depletion

Youth of Zongoire, Binaba and Kusanaba in the Bawku West District of the Upper East Region have given the Forestry...