Thu, 23 Mar 2017 12:57:45 +0000 By BENNIE MUNDANDO WE are now pleased that law enforcement authorities understand the matrix of sources and players involved in the illicit timber trade involving the Mukula tree because that is the only way the scourge will be stopped, the Zambian National Association of Sawmillers (ZNAS) has said. ZNAS president William Bwalya told the Daily Nation yesterday that ZNAS was worried that some local and foreign elements had been at the centre of illegally harvesting and exporting the Mukula while the blame was heaped on local sawmillers. Mr. Bwalya said while there was considerable concern on the illegal activity which threatened the specie into extinction, very little attention was initially given to stakeholders and players in the forestry sector. He said as a result, sawmillers who were conducting clean business were perceived as perpetrators of the vice, yet the 135 sawmillers in Zambia which have licences for hard […]
