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Government bans logging on Bioko island

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    Equatorial Guinea’s government has banned the cutting of trees on Bioko Island, AFP reported the deputy minister of Water, Forests and Environment, Joaquin Mecheba Ivina, as saying on Saturday after a meeting with small-scale loggers in the capital, Malabo, which is located on the island. He said the measure was meant to protect the forests against the “abusive exploitation to which it is subjected by chain-saw operators”, AFP reported. Logging companies were banned from Bioko in 1990 but they have since been replaced by small-scale sawmillers, Ivina said.

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