Photo: China Spurring Illegal Timber Trade in Tanzania



Logs of indigenous hardwood await export in southern Tanzania's Rufiji District in this picture taken in 2007.

China's insatiable appetite for timber has sparked a boom in illegal trade in the east African country, and conservationists say the unchecked deforestation may have grave environmental impacts.

Photograph courtesy Simon Milledge/TRAFFIC


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