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New forestry bill underway

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    Gabon’s parliament is considering a bill that aims to bring its forestry law in step with international conventions and better protect the country’s 20 million hectares of woodland, a senior official of the water and forestry department told IRIN on Wednesday.

    “The bill proposes a new forestry code that emphasises good, durable management of the forests,” Alphonse Owele, the department’s deputy director general, said from Libreville.

    [See separate story titled ‘GABON: Parliament considers new forestry bill’

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