Yes you read the title right, the illegal trade of rosewood (an endangered species of timber) is still ongoing despite the numerous effort by environmental activists and some international organizations to enforce the ban placed on it, a Washington based Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) report can confirm. 

This throws light on how enforcement of laws to protect mother nature is difficult down here in Ghana. And as I reported some months ago in my Stop Exploiting Africa Series, the foreign nationals behind the purchasing of these rosewood are Chinese nationals, this the EIA report can again confirm.

The government in Ghana has currently setup a committee to look at this pressing matter but I do not believe this will do any good. 

I have never seen a bushfire in Ghana before, the only time a bush catches fire in my country is when somebody intentionally starts a fire in the bush and even with that, it does not burn for long before it is put off, this cannot be compared to the bushfires that occur outside Africa as result of climate change and a typical example is the Amazon Forest Fire. 

As a friend of all, I would advice that we Stop Exploiting Africa because the effects of doing that would be felt by each and everyone of us through Climate Change.

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