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Raphael Edou is the Africa programme manager at the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA-US), leading campaigns that address forest crimes, violation of indigenous people and local communities’ rights, and corruption across Africa. He is a former minister of climate change and forest, and former minister of land use and local governance in Benin. He was also the deputy mayor of Benin’s capital Cotonou.

Dakar, senegal - Gambia has banned all exports of timber to curb rampant illegal logging and protect critically endangered African rosewood, but conserv

Dakar, senegal - Gambia has banned all exports of timber to curb rampant illegal logging and protect critically endangered African rosewood, but conserv

Dakar, senegal - Gambia has banned all exports of timber to curb rampant illegal logging and protect critically endangered African rosewood, but conserv

Dakar, senegal - Gambia has banned all exports of timber to curb rampant illegal logging and protect critically endangered African rosewood, but conserv

A cursory Google search for "rosewood furniture China" brings up plenty of sites selling the luxury item, but most buyers are likely unaware that their treasured table or chair could be the product of a rampant illegal trade in the protected tree species — one which is decimating forests in West Africa, facilitating elephant poaching,…

Country's penchant for luxury furniture made from the tropical tree helps enable ivory trafficking and promote jihadi insurgency, report finds

Report says blockades limiting fuel and aid to the conflict-ridden region have forced Tigrayans to chop down trees to find resources for day-to-day living

Iconic African wildlife such as elephants, big cats and rosewood trees will be central to discussions of the World Wildlife Conference slated for Panama later this year. The standing committee meeting of the UN wildlife trade body, called the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species, which met all of last week in Lyon, France,…