OMO FOREST RESERVE, Nigeria — Roaring chain saws sent trees crashing to the ground, and bare-chested men hacked away at the branches beside a muddy road. Others heaved logs onto a truck, where they ...

ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast (AP) — Logging permits designed to promote small businesses are being allocated by the hundreds to industrial logging companies in West and Central Africa in a hidden pattern of ...

Though the dense humid forests of Central Africa have been regarded as among the most pristine on Earth, the expansion of industrial logging and the accompanying proliferation of road density are ...

(MENAFN- The Conversation) African countries are estimated to lose US$17 billion each year to illegal logging. High-value timber species are in global demand. Illegal logging is most prevalent in the ...

In a move that wildlife biologists say has saved an African Eden, a German logging company said yesterday that it had given up its lease on a tract of swamp-fringed rain forest in the Congo Republic.

Norway has recently signed a multi-million-dollar deal with Liberia to stop logging in order to protect the environment, but what will be the impact of such deals on the communities who rely on the ...

Logging activities in tropical Africa may pose hidden health risks to wildlife and humans according to a veterinary pathobiologist speaking at a scientific conference in Paramaribo, Suriname. Thomas R ...

Many residents of Itasin have either had their farms destroyed, been physically attacked, or narrowly escaped encounters with elephants that wander in from the nearby forest reserve.At dawn in early ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Illegal logging in Cameroon’s Ebo forest threatens the African zebrawood tree with extinction. Rising demand for its beautiful wood, lax local law ...