Lofa Superintendent Extorting Money From Plank Dealers
Top: The Superintendent of Lofa County William Tamba Kamba unlawfully imposed fees on planks produced in the county. Graphic by Rebazar Forte
By James Harding...
How FDA Gave Loggers Over 14K Hectares of Surplus Forests
Top: Graphic showing FDA Managing Director Mike Doryen and different illegal activities of West Africa Forest Development Incorporated (WAFDI) in Grand Bassa County. The...
Women Want to Continue Roles in Troublesome Community Forest
Top: Dugbormar Kwekeh, a member of Gheegbarn #1 Community Forest tells European envoys about challenges with commercial logging in that part of Liberia in...
FDA Illegally Cut Contracts Term And Gave Companies More Forests
Top: The Forestry Development Authority unlawfully authorized companies to harvest trees in forests in excess of the legal requirements. The DayLight/Derick Snyder
By James Harding...
Early Signs Logging Contract Is Failing
Top: Grass-covered culverts meant to construct handpumps for communities adjacent to the Central Morweh Community Forest. The DayLight/Gabriel M. Dixon
By Gabriel M. Dixon
BOEGEEZAY TOWN,...
Court Files: FDA Deputy Dodged Police Illegal Logging Probe
Top: FDA’s Deputy Managing Director for Administration and Finance Benjamin Tennessee Plewon III did not turn out for questioning over his alleged involvement with...
Korean Illegal Logging Web Not Yet Indicted
Top: Police officers at the Temple of Justice in Monrovia. The DayLight/James Harding Giahyue
By O’Neill Philips
Two Korean nationals suspected of illegal logging activities and...
Illegal Logging Case Undermines Forestry Laws – Watchdog
Top: Some of the woods at the center of a legal battle between the Forestry Development Authority and Renaissance Group Incorporated. Photo credit: Civil...
How Police Busted A Web of Korean Timber Traffickers
Top: A graphic showing members of an illegal logging syndicate busted by the Liberian National Police and charged. Above left to right: former police...
Logs Left at Sinoe Port and Forest Rot
Top: Several logs Delta Timber Company left at the Port of Greenville, Sinoe County that have now decayed. The DayLight/James Harding Giahyue
By Emmanuel Sherman
GREENVILLE,...