Climate Evidence: Illegal logging of shea and other economic trees driving deforestation in Upper West

Illegal logging of shea and other indigenous economic trees is accelerating deforestation in Ghana’s Upper West Region, threatening livelihoods and undermining climate resilience in the northern ecological zone.


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