Gabon’s Post-Coup Government Keeps Focus on Forest Preservation
- Timber firms ordered to move to new digital tracking system
- System will track wood products from forest to export
A road runs through a forest in Nyanga, Gabon.
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Gabon’s new forestry minister, appointed by the country’s military government after an August coup, has eased concern that the world’s second-most forested nation would abandon its role as one of the leading voices advocating the preservation of rain forests.
In his first order, signed Oct. 3, Minister of Water and Forests Maurice Ntossui Allogo, instructed the timber industry to transition to a new digital tracking system to crack down on deforestation and make the industry more transparent.