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The Forest Services Division of the Forestry Commission has begun a pilot project on artisan milling as part of measures aimed at curbing illegal chainsaw milling...... [more...]
According to data from the Timber Inspection Development Division (TIDD) of the Forestry Commission (FC), the total volume of wood products export for the period January to December 2012 was 251,346 cubic metres...... [more...]
The Forestry Commission (FC) of Ghana and Tropenbos International Ghana are jointly working together to draft a policy that will ensure a supply of legal timber to the domestic market...... [more...]
A team from the Ghana Forestry Commission (GFC) visited key importers in EU member states to exchange views and inform buyers, officials from EU competent authorities, customs and timber trade federations on the interim arrangements Ghana is putting in place before it is in a position to provide FLEGT Licensed wood products...... [more...]
A three member Ghanaian delegation is in Europe to participate in a series of meetings to create awareness of the interim arrangements that Ghana has put in place to ensure the supply of legal timber to the EU market in advance of the adoption in Ghana of the FLEGT licensing system...... [more...]
The Government of Ghana and the EU concluded negotiations on a Voluntary Partnership Agreement (VPA) in September, 2008 and both parties signed the world’s first FLEGT VPA on November, 20th 2009...... [more...]
Ghana’s cabinet has recently approved the revised Forest and Wildlife Policy which the focuses on the non-consumptive values of the forest including protection of water bodies, conservation of biological diversity and ecotourism...... [more...]
A total of 1,235 export permits were processed, approved
and issued by the Timber Industry Development Division
(TIDD) during the third quarter, covering shipments of
timber and wood products through the ports of Takoradi
and Tema, as well as overland exports to neighbouring
ECOWAS countries...... [more...]