Current location:Earthly Elements news portal > style
New Liberia forest boss plans to increase exports, denies working with war criminal Charles Taylor
Earthly Elements news portal2024-05-29 12:56:19【style】3People have gathered around
IntroductionLiberia, West Africa’s most forested country, has a long history of illegal logging, which the count
Liberia, West Africa’s most forested country, has a long history of illegal logging, which the country’s regulator, the Forestry Development Authority, has repeatedly struggled to confront.
So it raised eyebrows when Rudolph Merab, whose companies were twice found to have engaged in illegal logging, was recently appointed to lead the FDA. One of Merab’s companies was also mentioned in the trial of Charles Taylor, a former Liberia president who was convicted of war crimes during the civil war in neighboring country Sierra Leone.
In an interview with The Associated Press, for the first time Merab answered questions about his past and detailed his plans for managing Liberia’s forests, promising to increase timber exports and cut regulations.
“Commercial logging has always helped the country,” said Merab, interviewed by phone in late April, adding that more sawmills were needed so freshly cut trees could be processed within Liberia before being exported.
Address of this article:http://yemen.chongwenmenhotelbeijing.com/article-83e299645.html
Very good!(29)
Related articles
- Mike Tyson, 57, claims he will die 'really soon', needs a week in bed after pad
- China Specifies Measures to Ease Burden of Student Loans
- China to Implement Garbage Sorting in All Cities by 2025
- Construction Begins on Intangible Cultural Heritage Museum in Xinjiang
- 7 injured after natural gas explosion in Youngstown, Ohio
- Hexi District Offers Convenient Reading Service to Readers in N China's Tianjin
- China Beats Japan in FIVB Women's Nations League
- Panax Notoginseng Cultivation Contributes to Rural Revitalization in SW China
- Dakota Johnson puts on a leggy display in a miniskirt and boots as she films new romantic
- China Wins 2023 FIBA 3x3 Women's Series in Wuhan
Popular articles
Recommended
Mets catcher Francisco Alvarez will begin a rehab stint on Thursday
Flower Industry Blooms in Early Summer in China
Medical Team from Guangdong Provides Home Services in Tibet
Embroidery Industry Provides Jobs for Local Women of Miao Ethnic Group in Yunnan County
US files a labor complaint over claims that a Volkswagen plant in Mexico fired union activists
Maternal, Infant Mortality Drop to Record Low in China
China Beats Brazil in 2023 Volleyball Nations League
Spring Bud Girls Receive Gifts ahead of Int'l Children's Day
Links
- Attendance action plan includes daily data, traffic light system
- Chiefs crush Moana 68
- Minister for Employment Louise Upston 'really feels' for public servants losing their jobs
- Russia, Kazakhstan floods: High water levels swamp Orenburg houses
- World Court orders Israel to halt Gaza famine; Hamas says ceasefire needed
- Some Auckland train services cancelled
- Alexei Navalny was about to be freed in prisoner swap, says colleague
- Government sets nine targets in health, crime, social support, education, climate
- RNZ's pips are changing
- Israel dismisses UN resolution on possible war crimes as 'distorted text'