Cameroon loses about 33 billion CFA francs (almost US$60 000 000) annually through the illegal exploitation of timber. The trade may also be benefiting terrorist groups such as Boko Haram and ...

WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--One of the largest timber smuggling operations in history is revealed today by the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) in a report that shows how over 1.4 million ...

Between 2014 and 2018, Nigeria underwent a seismic shift in its forestry sector, transforming from a minor timber participant into the world’s largest exporter of African rosewood, known locally as ...

WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--This week, in response to the dire rosewood crisis in West Africa and particularly in Nigeria, the Secretariat of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered ...

As rainforest throughout much of the country has disappeared, Nigeria’s Oluwa Forest Reserve has been a sanctuary for many species, including Nigeria-Cameroon chimpanzees – the rarest chimpanzee ...

Deidei timber market traders in Abuja, yesterday complained of the lack of a clinic to treat victims of industrial accidents in the market. The traders expressed dissatisfaction over the decayed state ...

Buhari administration banned the export of wood and charcoal because... The Minister of Environment, Mohammed Abdullahi, made the statement on Thursday, January 19, 2023, in Abuja following a meeting ...

SOLDIERFS drafted from 13 Brigade of the Nigerian Army in Calabar, Cross River State, have raided the Calabar timber market and carted away illegal wood brought into the market through illegal routes ...

HANOI, VIETNAM (AP) – Vietnamese authorities have seized 981 pounds of ivory illegally shipped from Nigeria after finding 3.5 tons at the same port last month, an official said Wednesday. The ivory ...

No fewer than five shops were on Tuesday gutted by fire at the timber market in Kenyatta Street, Uwani, Enugu, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports. A NAN correspondent who was at the scene of the ...