{"id":4071,"date":"2023-08-21T16:49:18","date_gmt":"2023-08-21T16:49:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stage.thedaylight.org\/wp68\/?p=4071"},"modified":"2023-08-22T19:12:11","modified_gmt":"2023-08-22T19:12:11","slug":"fda-authorized-firms-illegal-harvest-on-private-land","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stage.thedaylight.org\/wp68\/2023\/08\/21\/fda-authorized-firms-illegal-harvest-on-private-land\/","title":{"rendered":"FDA Authorized Firm\u2019s Illegal Harvest on Private Land"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Top: A graphic depicting an elder, illegal logs, abandoned logs and camp, and harvesting maps from an unlawful plan the Forestry Development Authority (FDA) approved. The DayLight\/Rebazar Forte <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity is-style-wide\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>By Esau J. Farr<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">CONIWEIN, Grand Bassa County \u2013 One day in late 2020, Abednego Davies spotted some loggers felling trees on the way to his farm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The forest does not fall within the Marblee &amp; Karblee Community Forest so, what were they doing there, Davies thought to himself. The land belongs to Coniwein a section in the Marblee Clan in Grand Bassa\u2019s District Number Two.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Surprised and suspicious, Davies headed back to his village and told the elders, who proved his suspicion was right. In no time, the elders summoned a representative of the African Wood and Lumber Company and halted the illegal operations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">African Wood conceded it encroached on the villagers\u2019 territory and began to negotiate to continue but that would not happen, according to documents The DayLight obtained and elders we interviewed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The elders knew the harvesting was happening on the Coniwein\u2019s land and so it was illegal. Back in 2019, Coniwein had opted to be part of the Marblee &amp; Karblee Community Forest but African Wood refused, according to Gonaweh Gbiahgaye, one of the elders. The following year, \u00a0the elders had warned African Wood from their land while the company prepared to harvest. \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"FDA Authorized Company&#039;s Illegal Logging on Private Land\" width=\"696\" height=\"522\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Tb5seORte0w?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cConiwein is a section with a substantial deed, which, if you want to do anything, you should meet the citizens,\u201d villagers said in a May 2020 letter to African Wood at the time. Coniwein\u2019s land covers 6,760 acres, a copy of the community\u2019s deed, seen by The DayLight, shows.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Having ignored Coniwein\u2019s warning, African Wood now tried to convince the elders to continue the illegal operations. A meeting by the parties ended in deadlock, according to Gbiahgaye.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The elders wrote Joshua Howard, a manager of the African Wood, rejecting its proposal to keep the logs in question and cut additional ones. Then they asked the company to pay for the logs it had harvested.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe are telling you not to touch any of the logs or cut down any logs until we all meet and come down to one conclusion,\u201d the January 2021 letter read.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/stage.thedaylight.org\/wp68\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/IMG_2958-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4073\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stage.thedaylight.org\/wp68\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/IMG_2958-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/stage.thedaylight.org\/wp68\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/IMG_2958-scaled-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/stage.thedaylight.org\/wp68\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/IMG_2958-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stage.thedaylight.org\/wp68\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/IMG_2958-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/stage.thedaylight.org\/wp68\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/IMG_2958-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/stage.thedaylight.org\/wp68\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/IMG_2958-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/stage.thedaylight.org\/wp68\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/IMG_2958-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/stage.thedaylight.org\/wp68\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/IMG_2958-696x464.jpg 696w, https:\/\/stage.thedaylight.org\/wp68\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/IMG_2958-1068x712.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/stage.thedaylight.org\/wp68\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/IMG_2958-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/stage.thedaylight.org\/wp68\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/IMG_2958-1320x880.jpg 1320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The DayLight photographed the stumps of trees of African Wood and Lumber illegally harvested in Coniwein private forest in Grand Bassa County. The DayLight\/Harry Browne<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Such negotiation is prohibited in forestry. Communities are under a legal obligation to inform the Forestry Development Authority (FDA) in such matters, according to the Regulation on <a href=\"https:\/\/flegtvpafacility.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Officially-Gazetted-Regulation-118-17-Confiscated-Logs-Timber-Products.pdf\">Confiscated Logs, Timber and Timber Products<\/a>. It requires the FDA to investigate and seek a court\u2019s approval to confiscate and then auction the logs in question. It also sets a penalty for logging outside a contract area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But amid their rowdy negotiation, a huge pile of the illegal logs adjacent to Davies\u2019 farm disappeared between March and July, according to some villagers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">African Wood had taken the logs not long after Davies discovered the illegal operations, former workers of the company said. One account had it that the company smuggled the woods overnight. However, The DayLight could not independently verify the claim.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWhen they felled the logs, they took some and some remained in the bush. Our work was to extract logs from the bush for the company,\u201d said David, whose duties included fastening the tags bearing barcodes to the logs. <strong>&nbsp;<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Another former worker, Daniel Muopoe, corroborated the account. He said, \u201c[African Wood] felled our logs from our community but they never carried [all of them].\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/stage.thedaylight.org\/wp68\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Signed-letter-768x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4074\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stage.thedaylight.org\/wp68\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Signed-letter-768x1025.png 768w, https:\/\/stage.thedaylight.org\/wp68\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Signed-letter-600x800.png 600w, https:\/\/stage.thedaylight.org\/wp68\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Signed-letter-225x300.png 225w, https:\/\/stage.thedaylight.org\/wp68\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Signed-letter-150x200.png 150w, https:\/\/stage.thedaylight.org\/wp68\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Signed-letter-300x400.png 300w, https:\/\/stage.thedaylight.org\/wp68\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Signed-letter-696x928.png 696w, https:\/\/stage.thedaylight.org\/wp68\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Signed-letter.png 943w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A handwritten letter from Coniwein to African Wood, warning the company against its encroachment on the community\u2019s land. The DayLight\/Esau J. Farr<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In total, African Wood harvested about 200 logs, according to Muopoe and other ex-workers who participated in the illegal operations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A team of reporters from The DayLight photographed and videotaped some of the logs in a forest near a town called Wayglon before and after the disappearance. White tags clearly brandishing \u201cAfrican Wood &amp; Lumber Company\u201d were attached to the wood. Some standing trees had tags on them, suggesting they had been earmarked for harvesting. &nbsp;Felled trees lay in the forest in a number of locations, some rotting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With no logs nor money and three years after Davies\u2019 discovery, Coniwein has decided to inform the FDA about the incident.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Actually, elders attempted to inform the agency but a townsman tasked to lodge a complaint did not do so. \u201cI have not gone to the FDA because I don\u2019t know how to get to them,\u201d Patrick Karngbo, who serves as Coniwein\u2019s land administrator, told The DayLight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What Coniwein did not know was that the FDA had authorized the harvesting on their land.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The FDA had <a href=\"https:\/\/stage.thedaylight.org\/wp68\/2023\/06\/29\/fda-illegally-cut-contracts-term-and-gave-companies-more-forests\/\">illegally granted<\/a> African Wood and six other companies access to excess forests to harvest in short timeframes.&nbsp; The most infamous of the seven was the West African Forest Development Incorporated (WAFDI). A Ministry of Justice <a href=\"https:\/\/stage.thedaylight.org\/wp68\/2023\/08\/06\/how-liberias-fda-gave-loggers-over-14k-hectares-of-surplus-forests\/\">investigation discovered<\/a> WAFDI had harvested the illicit forest area for nearly three years, exporting thousands of round logs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/stage.thedaylight.org\/wp68\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/IMG_3131-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4075\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stage.thedaylight.org\/wp68\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/IMG_3131-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/stage.thedaylight.org\/wp68\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/IMG_3131-scaled-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/stage.thedaylight.org\/wp68\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/IMG_3131-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stage.thedaylight.org\/wp68\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/IMG_3131-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/stage.thedaylight.org\/wp68\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/IMG_3131-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/stage.thedaylight.org\/wp68\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/IMG_3131-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/stage.thedaylight.org\/wp68\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/IMG_3131-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/stage.thedaylight.org\/wp68\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/IMG_3131-696x464.jpg 696w, https:\/\/stage.thedaylight.org\/wp68\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/IMG_3131-1068x712.jpg 1068w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Gonaweh Gbiahgaye, an elder of Coniwein Section in District Number Two, Grand Bassa County. The DayLight\/Harry Browne<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But African Wood\u2019s harvesting of the illegal FDA-approved forest area remained unreported\u2014until now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">African Wood\u2019s harvesting plan for 2019-2020 shows the FDA authorized the company to cut trees on 5,600 hectares. However, the plan further shows that 6.95 percent of the FDA-approved area was outside Marblee &amp; Karblee, including in Coniwein.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Doryen wrongly claimed in the letter that the plan conformed with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.clientearth.org\/media\/mg1acjpc\/guidelines-for-forest-management-planning-liberia-ext-en.pdf\">Guideline for Forest Management Planning<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.clientearth.org\/media\/d0qjcdbx\/forestry-development-authority-ten-core-regulations-ext-en.pdf\">Regulation on Pre-felling Requirements<\/a>. \u201cAfter thorough review\u2026 by the joint team\u2026, we hereby approve said plan, having met all basic requirements,\u201d Doryen wrote African Wood\u2019s CEO Cesare Colombo on June 17, 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On the contrary, the plan broke all those legal instruments. Doryen did not respond to questions The DayLight emailed to him for this story.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">African Wood\u2019s operations in Coniwein are not the company\u2019s first logging offense.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In December 2020, the company <a href=\"https:\/\/stage.thedaylight.org\/wp68\/2022\/07\/05\/another-company-illegally-cuts-550-logs-in-river-cess\/\">harvested 550 logs in a forest in River Cess without the FDA\u2019s approval<\/a>. The FDA <a href=\"https:\/\/stage.thedaylight.org\/wp68\/2022\/07\/06\/fda-replaces-rangers-over-illegal-logging\/\">replaced a ranger<\/a> in responsible for that region but did not take any known required action against the firm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Adjacent to Coniwein\u2019s woodland, African Wood has <a href=\"https:\/\/stage.thedaylight.org\/wp68\/2023\/05\/12\/company-abandons-contract-leaving-debts-and-logs-in-bassa\/\">neglected the Marblee &amp; Karblee Community Forest<\/a>, leaving the landowners with about a US$140,000 debt and abandoning 2,682 logs, according to official records. &nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Colombo did not respond to questions for comments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Top: A graphic depicting an elder, illegal logs, abandoned logs and camp, and harvesting maps from an unlawful plan the Forestry Development Authority (FDA) approved. The DayLight\/Rebazar Forte By Esau J. 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