Kenya Wildlife Service impounds 34 containers of Rosewood timber at Mombasa Port

The containers seized at the port loaded with Malagasy Rosewood timber in transit to Hong Kong from Zanzibar. [Photo: Gideon Maundu/Standard]

Mombasa, Kenya: The intelligence wing of the Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) says it has uncovered a multi-million shilling international syndicate at the Mombasa Port involving illegal trade in the endangered Rosewood from Madagascar.

Monday, KWS announced it had seized 34 containers of the priced timber from a vessel, MV Kota Hapas, which had sailed into Mombasa from Zanzibar under a false declaration of cargo.