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Gambia banned timber exports and cancelled export licenses to prevent illegal logging
Posted on July 11, 2022 |
- Port authorities are required to forbid loading timber logs onto any vessel as the ban is effective instantly and the felling and import of rosewood are also banned.
- From June 2012 to April 20202, Gambia exported 1.6 million rosewood trees, most of which violated the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES).