Sierra-Leon’s authorities announced about the prohibition on wood export. This measure was taken in connection with the high rise of the illegal lumbering. The humid tropical forests are abolished on 90% in accordance with the times of the British colonial sway.
The most suffer came to the period of the civil war 1991-2002. More than 70% from 6 million citizens are living rough there that is why they use any possibilities for getting money. Lumbering is one of the sources. Forests abolishing in some districts led to the soil erosion that was followed by abandoning of the living places. Now Sierra-Leon’s authorities are trying to block the way to robbing the rest natural resources. It is necessary to say that there was no one forest laws worked out in Sierra-Leon for the period of the independence from the British colonial regime. Truly speaking it would not make sense in terms of the civil war though now when peace has come the forestry sector has to be regulated by laws and not by the different armed criminal gangs. The government must provide forests preservation and inequitable income distribution for their use.