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Banjul,
Jul
02:
The
Gambia
banned
all
timber
exports,
and
completely
suspended
export
licenses
of
wooden
on
Friday.
The
West
African
nation
is
making an attempt
to
curb
the
unlawful
smuggling
of
endangered
rosewood.
“All
current
permits
issued
for
the
export/re-export
of
timber
are
completely
revoked,”
the
info
ministry
mentioned
in
a
assertion.
The
authorities
instructed
port
authorities
to
oversee
and
stop
any
loading
of
logs
onto
any
vessels.
Authorities
will
additionally
carry
out
random
searches
of
containers.
Trafficking
of
timber
is
rampant
in
the
nation
as a result of
the
excessive
demand
for
rosewood
in
China.
Behind
the
ban
In
2012,
the
West
African
rosewood
tree
was
declared
almost
extinct
in
Gambia.
However
even
then,
the
nation
has
remained
one
of
the
largest
exporters
of
the
species
to
China,
alongside
with
its
neighbors
Senegal
and
Guinea-Bissau.
A lot
of
the
rosewood
being
despatched
by way of
the
Gambia
is
believed
to
hail
from
the
southern
Senegalese
area
of
Casamance
—
which
is
far
nearer
to
Gambia
than
to
main
Senegalese
ports
like
Dakar
and
the place
Senegalese
authorities
management
is
restricted
amid
a
separatist
motion
in
the
area
that
has
largely
held
to
ceasefires
in
latest
years.
In accordance
to
the
Environmental
Investigation
Company,
The
Gambia
has
exported
an
estimated
1.6
million
rosewood
timber
since
2012.
Earlier,
President
Adama
Barrow
tried
to
curb
rosewood
trafficking
when
he
took
workplace
in
2017.
However
he
by no means
carried out
a
full
export
ban
till
now.
The
ban
is
efficient
instantly.
In accordance
to
figures
from
the
Obersvatory
of
Financial
Complexity,
timber
and
wooden
merchandise
are
an
necessary
export
commodity
for
Gambia,
with
exports
valued
at
roughly
$16.7
million
in
2020.
Solely
gold,
by
far
its
most
beneficial
export
commodity,
and
nut
and
fish
merchandise
generated
extra
income.
Supply: DW
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