By: Annakleta Haikera
The Kavango West and East Chief Forester, Jonas Mwiikinghi, revealed to The Villager on Wednesday that between April and December 2025, authorities confiscated about 3,230 illegally harvested timber planks in the two Kavango regions.
Mwiikinghi added that during the same period, 11 suspects were found guilty and fined. He also noted that as of January this year, no illegal timber planks had been confiscated.
Mwiikinghi said illegal timber harvesting in the Kavango regions involves both local and external actors, with most of the physical cutting carried out by Namibian nationals, often within small-scale farming units where landowners illegally authorise logging activities.
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