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Report: nearly half the timber from Mozambique to China is illegal

2013-02-07 21:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Mongabay: Forty-eight percent of the timber making its way from Mozambique's forests to Chinese companies was harvested illegally, according to a new report by the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA), which blames the problem on widespread corruption and poor governance. The illegal logging cost Mozambique, the world's fourth least-developed country in the world according to the UN, $29 million in tax revenue, says the report. "Despite recent commendable efforts by the Mozambican Government to control...

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