Gabon will be paid by Norway to preserve its forests
Gabon will become the latest African nation to receive funding to preserve its rainforests to mitigate the effects of climate change. As part of a 10-year deal announced on Sunday (Sept. 22), Norway will pay $150 million to Gabon to battle deforestation and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.Quartz Africa, 23 September 2019
Gabon, Timber, reforestation The Congo Basin: palm oil’s next frontier
But many of the Congo Basin’s most forested countries are dreaming big. Cameroon aims to double palm oil production by 2035, and Gabon has ambitions of becoming a leading exporter. At the same time, edible oil consumption across Africa is projected to triple by 2050 (from 2013 levels.)Forests News, 09 July 2019
Democratic Republic of Congo, Gabon, Central African Republic, Cameroon, Republic of the Congo, Palm Oil, deforestation, Congo Basin ‘Mr. Green’: British environmentalist is Gabon’s new forestry minister
This is the challenge facing Lee White, a green activist born in Britain, who this week was named minister of water and forests in Gabon.Independent, 14 June 2019
Gabon, Timber, forestry minister Big Money, Big Cheating: Keeping Profits High and Hidden in the Gabonese Logging Industry
The managers of the company Transport Bois Négoce International (TBNI) know how to make big money off logging the Congo Basin forest while keeping their profit hidden from Gabonese authorities. Yet their methods remain a secret no more, as company officials described in detail to EIA investigators the tricks of their trade.All Africa, 13 June 2019
Gabon, Timber, Congo Basin Forest, illegal timber trading, Illegal logging Gabon – vice-president and forestry minister sacked over illegal logging
Gabon’s President Ali Bongo has sacked his vice-president and his forestry minister amid a timber-smuggling scandal.Africa Sustainable Conservation, 27 May 2019
Gabon, Timber, Illegal logging Illegal haul of Gabonese sacred wood disappears
Hundreds of seized containers of kevazingo, a precious wood considered sacred and whose exploitation is banned in Gabon, have gone missing, it emerged Wednesday.Daily Mail , 08 May 2019
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