Deep Dive: Exploring Organized Crime

Guinea-Bissau Part 2: Pau de Sangue (Blood Timber)


Listen Later

In the wake of the 2012 'Cocaine Coup' in Guinea-Bissau the illegal logging trade exploded, largely driven by huge demand for rosewood logs in China - a species protected under international law.

By 2014, such was the extent of this illicit trade, civil society pressured the new government to introduce a five-year moratorium on timber exports.

Now, in 2021, as the government seems poised to lift the moratorium, there is fear that there could be a resurgence in illegal logging causing irreparable damage to the environment.

Guests

Obento Branco Catami (Regional Delegate for Forestry and Wildlife in the Cacheu region).

Ude Fati (Economist, Head of Voz di Paz)

Fodé Mané (University of Bissau) 

Tânia Gomes (President of the Association of Friends of Guinea-Bissau)

Lucia Bird Ruiz-Benitez de Lugo, Senior Analyst, Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime

Reading

Deep-rooted interests: Licensing illicit logging in Guinea Bissau

Authorized Plunder in Guinea-Bissau - Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA)

Breaking the vicious cycle: Cocaine politics in Guinea-Bissau

The Seidi Bá cocaine trial: A smokescreen for impunity?

Presenter: Jack Meegan-Vickers

...more
View all episodesView all episodes
Download on the App Store

Deep Dive: Exploring Organized CrimeBy Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime

  • 4.8
  • 4.8
  • 4.8
  • 4.8
  • 4.8

4.8

18 ratings


More shows like Deep Dive: Exploring Organized Crime

View all
SpyCast by SpyCast

SpyCast

1,511 Listeners

Angry Planet by Matthew Gault and Jason Fields

Angry Planet

794 Listeners

Secrets and Spies Podcast: Current Affairs | Geopolitics | Intelligence by Secrets & Spies

Secrets and Spies Podcast: Current Affairs | Geopolitics | Intelligence

270 Listeners

The Intercept Briefing by The Intercept

The Intercept Briefing

6,118 Listeners

Popular Front by Jake Hanrahan

Popular Front

770 Listeners

WW2 Pod: We Have Ways of Making You Talk by Goalhanger

WW2 Pod: We Have Ways of Making You Talk

1,331 Listeners

The Story by The Times

The Story

262 Listeners

True Spies: Espionage | Investigation | Crime | Murder | Detective | Politics by SPYSCAPE

True Spies: Espionage | Investigation | Crime | Murder | Detective | Politics

1,963 Listeners

In Moscow's Shadows by Mark Galeotti

In Moscow's Shadows

364 Listeners

The Ancients by History Hit

The Ancients

3,058 Listeners

The Underworld Podcast by The Underworld Podcast

The Underworld Podcast

799 Listeners

The Rest Is History by Goalhanger

The Rest Is History

13,109 Listeners

SpyTalk by SpyTalk, Jeff Stein

SpyTalk

204 Listeners

The Index by Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime

The Index

0 Listeners

Disorder by Jason Pack & Evergreen Podcasts

Disorder

114 Listeners