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Logging ban leaves timber traders high and dry

Logs of wood [Courtesy]

The ban on logging in public forests three years ago has had mixed results, environmentalists say.

The Environment Ministry in 2018 imposed a nationwide ban on timber harvesting in all public and community forests to allow reassessment and rationalisation of the entire forest sector in the country following calls to save the main water towers.

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