Forests & Finance: Wood export bans and short-staffed regulators

Mongabay
Jul 14, 2023, 2:25 pm145 pts
Uganda announces ban on timber exports KAMPALA — The Ugandan government has banned the export of timber from the East African country. In a directive issued at the end of June, President Yoweri Museveni pointed to indiscriminate harvesting of public and private forests across the country under pretext of…

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