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5 December 2019
Mukula Cartel - How Timber Trafficking Networks Plunder Zambian Forests
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- EIA-US
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- EIA-US
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Environmental Investigation Agency (Washington, DC)
Mukula Cartel - How Timber Traffickers Plunder Zambian Forests
The Environmental Investigation Agency's new report, Mukula Cartel, exposes how associates connected to Zambian President Edgar Lungu, including his daughter Tasila Lungu, onetime resident of the United States of America, are reportedly involved in the plunder of valuable, increasingly scarce, mukula rosewood trees; and hence the destruction of Zambia's vulnerable forests. The investigation shows that despite public pledges to end the illegal mukula trade, several politicians are repeatedly named as key actors in an influential timber trafficking network that bypasses existing national bans on mukula harvest and export. Read more.
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5 December 2019
Mukula Cartel - How Timber Trafficking Networks Plunder Zambian Forests
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- EIA-US
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- EIA-US
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A number of threatened tree species have been given a new lease on life. At its 18th Conference of the Parties (CoP18) in August 2019, the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Flora and Fauna (CITES) granted protection to several species - adding them to Appendix II of the binding global wildlife treaty. Among the new species to be regulated are mukula rosewood (Pterocarpus tinctorius), found in Central and Southern Africa; the critically endangered mulanje cedar from
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The Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) is releasing a new web-based tool that allows Ghanaian citizens to know the quantity and value of illegal rosewood imported into China from Ghana every month. Read more.
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As representatives from over 180 countries meet in Geneva for the 18th Conference of the Parties (CoP18) of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA-US) releases a new report documenting the highly destructive trade in "mukula" wood from Central and Southern Africa. Asian timber trafficking networks have been plundering the forests for years
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The Environmental Investigation Agency documents a massive institutionalized timber trafficking scheme in Ghana, enabled by high-level corruption and collusion. The new EIA report "BAN-BOOZLED: How Corruption and Collusion Fuel Illegal Rosewood Trade in Ghana" reveals how despite a
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