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[https://www.weforum.org/stories/2015/01/how-to-stop-illegal-logging-in-tanzania/ by Kizito Makoye 14/1/15 WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM] | [https://www.weforum.org/stories/2015/01/how-to-stop-illegal-logging-in-tanzania/ by Kizito Makoye 14/1/15 WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM] | ||
Hundreds of tonnes of trees are being smuggled out of the district each month by timber traders to feed a lucrative construction market and furniture industries within the country and abroad, said district forest officials. | Hundreds of tonnes of trees are being smuggled out of the district each month by timber traders to feed a lucrative construction market and furniture industries within the country and abroad, said district forest officials. | ||
=====New Kenyan app is helping to track and halt illegal logging===== | |||
[https://www.weforum.org/stories/2021/04/this-app-helps-kenyan-people-to-prevent-illegal-logging/ by Kagondu Njagi 20/4/21 WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM] | |||
With about a dozen rangers, he has been using an app that through satellite feeds maps signs of forest fires, illegal logging and people encroaching on water sources, to stem worsening deforestation in Kwale County during the COVID-19 pandemic. | |||
