About 200 containers of rosewood from the Kalakpa Resource Reserve in Abutia, in the Volta Region were illegally smuggled out of the country to international markets between January 2018 and January 2019.
A research conducted by the Ghana Wildlife Society (GWS) in collaboration with Kalakpa Youth Club and the Abutia Development Union, all non-governmental organisations, established that despite a nationwide ban on the felling of rosewood since 2014, the illegality had been prevalent in the reserve in the last six years.
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