Nigeria and Uganda | Into the woods - ZAM
▻https://www.zammagazine.com/investigations/1802-nigeria-and-uganda-into-the-woods
Western “green” funds used for “merrymaking with ministers” while forests are cut down
Amid hundreds of millions paid by donors to the Ugandan government for forest-saving projects, a powerful logging syndicate linked to the same government continues the desertification. In Nigeria, also despite much “green” funding, the government itself clears out the trees. Forest communities are impoverished in the process.
Selling out the trees and the poor
Forests in Nigeria and Uganda disappeared faster during anti-deforestation programmes
Amid millions spent to “save trees”, large elite timber logging networks were given free reign by authorities
Bans on using wood impoverished communities while letting timber tycoons off the hook
#forêts #greenwashing #corruption cc @odilon
