A UK university has secured a £1.5m grant from the European Commission to help reduce illegal logging in Africa.
The University of Wolverhampton won the four-year project focusing on how forests are governed and managed in West and Central Africa.
The university’s centre for international development and training (CIDT) will lead the project in Cameroon, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Ghana and Liberia.
Of the 11 projects selected to receive funding from the European Commision, Wolverhampton was the only university.
“The project will strengthen African forest governance by promoting greater transparency and accountability within the forest sector,” said Philip Dearden, head of CIDT.
The project builds on CIDT’s five years of annual review work for the Department for International Development’s global programme to reduce illegal logging.