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Inside Nigeria’s Criminal Rosewood Economy

Freshly cut rosewood planks stacked inside Sunawara Forest, Adamawa State, North East Nigeria. Loggers sometimes process the timber into transportable sizes before moving them to depots outside the area. Photo: Ahmed Abubakar Bature/HumAngle.

In north-east Nigeria, failed harvests and poverty push farmers into illegal logging, feeding a cross-border trade run by middlemen.

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