Liberia: FDA Alerts Security Uncovers Illegal Logging Activities, Seeks Security Agencies, Public Cooperation

Monrovia — The Forestry Development Authority (FDA) says it has uncovered chains of clandestine and unwholesome acts of illegal harvesting and processing of logs around the country, especially in Nimba County and western Liberia.

It can be recalled that earlier in August 2023, the FDA rangers intercepted four container trucks conveying illegal wood to the Freeport of Monrovia. During the last month, two trucks bringing semi-processed timber, locally referred to as “Kpacolo,” was intercepted in…