{"id":34235,"date":"2016-09-06T11:15:00","date_gmt":"2016-09-06T11:15:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-10-08T11:47:20","modified_gmt":"2020-10-08T11:47:20","slug":"9235-can-china-help-mozambique-fight-deforestation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/nature\/9235-can-china-help-mozambique-fight-deforestation\/","title":{"rendered":"Can China help Mozambique fight deforestation?"},"content":{"rendered":"

China is the world\u2019s largest timber market and sources wood from more than 80 countries. But, <\/span>according to the Environmental Investigation Agency<\/a> (EIA), a London-based NGO, it is also the world\u2019s largest importer of stolen wood.<\/p>\n

On a recent trip to Mozambique, in southern Africa \u2013 where China consumes more than 90% of the country\u2019s timber, up to half of it logged illegally<\/a>, according to the EIA \u2013 it became clear that China is being seen not only driving illegal deforestation, but also helping with its potential solutions.<\/span><\/p>\n

More than half of Mozambique is covered by tropical forests, but the almost 3,000-square kilometre Gil\u00e9 National Reserve, in coastal Zambezia Province, has one of the most pervasive illegal logging problems in the country.<\/p>\n

There, pau ferro (Libidibia ferrea<\/a>), a protected exotic tree, is at risk of extinction because of high commercial demand for its wood. Jose Dias, the reserve\u2019s warden, told me it is extremely rare to find pau ferro outside such protected areas.<\/p>\n

A trip to the reserve let me see first-hand how illegal logging works in Mozambique. On arrival, I saw several rusty trucks parked at the entrance, loaded with huge pau ferro logs. These had been seized by rangers, after smugglers had unsuccessfully tried to steal them from the reserve.<\/span><\/p>\n

Despite being a habitat for wildlife, including lions, leopards, elephants, buffaloes and more, the reserve attracts few tourists due to a lack of infrastructure.<\/p>\n

But rangers have their work cut out trying to counter the many smugglers across the vast reserve. Since 2012, they have stopped a total of 58 trucks and 10 tractors of illegal wood. \u201cMany more are not caught,\u201d said Dias.<\/p>\n

In a report from March, Dias described this illegal logging as \u201corganised crime\u201d, involving collusion with police, officials, transport checkpoints, community leaders and sometimes even staff at the reserve.<\/p>\n

The logger<\/strong><\/p>\n

Before travelling to the reserve, I met in the provincial capital, Quelimane, with Zambezia\u2019s head of land, environment and rural development, Antonio Osvaldo Paqueleque.<\/p>\n

A newcomer on the job, he claimed to know little about the area\u2019s timber sector. But his department were more helpful, suggesting I speak to Jorge Bing: the province\u2019s only Chinese owner of forestry concessions, two of which border the southeastern edge of the reserve. Rangers had once captured eight trucks packed with pau ferro \u201cof reserve quality\u201d leaving Bing\u2019s concession.<\/p>\n

Bing has lived in Mozambique since 1973. A well-known and controversial figure in the province\u2019s business world, he has been involved in logging for almost two decades and owns seven timber factories. His family also owns houses and convenience stores in the city of Quelimane.<\/p>\n

Jean-Baptiste Deffontaines, a French technical advisor from the reserve, described Bing as one of nine illegal loggers \u201cknown around the reserve.\u201d Annwaudo Nawea, a timber producer from Mucucune area, near Bing\u2019s concession \u2013 who admitted smuggling pau ferro from the reserve — described him as \u201cbad person\u201d who \u201cdoesn\u2019t pay in time.\u201d Another local concession owner told me he was a \u201ctough man to deal with\u201d.<\/p>\n

But Bing himself, a bald man in his early fifties, told me matter-of-factly that he wasn\u2019t interested in the timber business anymore.<\/p>\n

We met in a local bar in Quelimane run by one of his high-school classmates, a local Mozambican. Unlike many other Chinese in Mozambique, Bing feels very settled in the country. \u201cMy ex-wife, from Mainland China, wanted me to leave Mozambique,\u201d said Bing, a Taiwanese. \u201cBut how could I? Everything I own is in Mozambique.\u201d<\/p>\n

As for the timber market, \u201cthe entire sector is corrupt,\u201d he acknowledged, \u201cand there\u2019s no space for legal work.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cBecause illegal is the norm, the reserve is in chaos. Villagers, and even the guards in the reserve, all want to sell pau ferro.\u201d He showed me pictures of pau ferro from within the reserve and from outside the reserve, to show the difference in quality. \u201cThe reserve has the best woods and villagers are more than happy to bring them to us.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWhy would anyone say no to logs of the best quality?\u201d He asked me.<\/p>\n

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\nTruck carrying illegal Pau-Ferro logs in<\/span> Gile national park, captured by rangers. \u00a0(Image by\u00a0Estacio Valoi)<\/span><\/p>\n

The minister<\/strong><\/p>\n

Celso Correia, Mozambique\u2019s minister of Land, environment and rural development, said he had never heard of Jorge Bing, but he knew the situation in Gil\u00e9 well.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn early 2015 when we first came to office, we decided to conduct an analysis of the current situation,\u201d said Correia. He had WWF Mozambique<\/a> and some local NGOs carry out a survey, which found \u201cmore than 50% of current concessions shouldn\u2019t be operating.\u201d Following the survey, Correia imposed a two-year ban on all new concession licenses.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are cleaning the house now,\u201d said Correia. \u201cWe just proofed a new Forestry Law which is going to the Parliament this year. We passed a new Conservation Law too. For people involved in illegal logging \u2013 if they\u2019re caught, they\u2019ll go to jail for 15 years. Before, people used to just pay a fine.\u201d He also banned all logging of pau ferro from January 2016.<\/span><\/p>\n

The challenges of deforestation in the country weren\u2019t mainly from logging but from agriculture, and \u201ccharcoal production by local communities,\u201d said Correia. \u201cWe need to have a forest that\u2019s sustainable and we need to have a market,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

For the country\u2019s environmentalists, this was too little, too late. The new rules came in just as Chinese demand softened, as the economy slowed and the anti-corruption drive dissuaded Chinese buyers from investing in ornate, showy furniture pieces made from tropical hardwood.<\/p>\n

Still, Correia argued that weaker Chinese demand for timber had made it easier to push through these tougher laws. With the wood price down, he said, \u201cthere\u2019s less pressure\u201d.<\/p>\n

This was not the first time the Mozambican government had tried to act on logging. As early as 1999, the government had listed eight species, including pau ferro, as first-class hardwoods banned from export in log form.<\/p>\n

But the partial export ban was ineffective. As the sustainable trade specialist Anne Terheggen<\/a> put it, the ban \u201cdid not produce the anticipated benefits of value creation, additional employment and sustainable forest management.\u201d<\/p>\n

As China effectively remains the country\u2019s sole market for timber, the domestic industry has little room to manoeuvre. There is little processing locally and much of Mozambique\u2019s tropical hardwood is exported to Chinese buyers as logs. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Corruption is widespread. Bing described payments being made all the way up the chain, from local loggers to high-level officials. EIA concluded in a report: \u201cMozambique provides a stark illustration of the chronic failure of forest management which ensues when China\u2019s insatiable demand for logs converges with weak law enforcement and corruption.\u201d<\/p>\n

Still, Correia was confident. \u201cAfter we organise the industry,\u201d he told me in his Maputo office, \u201cinvestors from China, Europe and America will see then we have a regulated market and that we have good system. But to build the wood industry in Mozambique, it will take at least up to 10 years.\u201d<\/p>\n

The factory manager<\/strong><\/p>\n

Late last year in Beira, the capital city of the central Sofala Province, Governor Maria Taipo visited three Chinese timber factories unannounced.<\/p>\n

From a list of labour violators compiled by the local labour department, Taipo had identified three factory owners she wanted to take by surprise: Heng Xin, Ming Fan Shan and Didi Madeiras.<\/p>\n

Jaime Chicamisse, head of the provincial labour department, said they had already issued suspension notices prior the governor\u2019s visits, \u201cbut they did not comply.\u201d Regarding Heng Xin, Chicamisse told me: \u201cIt was difficult for us to talk to the company; they often hire some local middleman to handle us.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Governor\u2019s visit had the desired effect. Taipo\u2019s order for suspension was complied with.<\/p>\n

I managed to get access to Heng Xin\u2019s factory, a few months after its suspension had been lifted. There I met Lin, the factory manager, who declined to give me his full name while the owner was away in China.<\/p>\n

Lin said it was one of the biggest factories in the region, employing around 100 local workers, mostly paid the official minimum wage of MT3,298 (US$67 \/ 447 yuan) a month. \u201cThe governor\u2019s visit was just a stunt for the media,\u201d he said. \u201cOur company\u2019s situation was not different from others.\u201d<\/p>\n

The labour violations described by Taipo included a lack of contracts, uniforms, changing rooms and even toilets at the factory.<\/p>\n

Surprisingly, Lin and his Chinese colleagues spoke to me freely, painting a prejudiced picture of the local workers as \u201clazy\u201d, feckless and drunk. \u201cThey are different from Chinese workers,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

But when it transpired my fixer, a Mozambican investigative journalist, was carrying a camera, the interview turned sour.<\/p>\n

We were put on the phone with the company\u2019s Mozambican lawyer, who suggested we could only talk to a few workers picked and prepared by Lin.<\/p>\n

Still, at the end of the day a large group of workers were waiting for us outside the factory gates. They clamoured to tell us that they couldn\u2019t take days off, even for family funerals; that they were forced to work when sick or injured; and even that workers had been beaten for complaining.<\/p>\n

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\nHen Xing is one of the three Chinese timber companies that have been temporarily suspended by the local authority. (Image by\u00a0Estacio Valoi)<\/span><\/p>\n

The solution<\/strong><\/p>\n

Correia, the minister, said the solution to the sector\u2019s problems would also come from China. \u201cAs we organise the sector,\u201d he said, \u201cmore serious Chinese companies will decide to come\u201d.<\/p>\n

Zheng Fei may represent one such example. In cooperation with WWF China, Zheng plans to build a privately owned \u201cSino-Mozambique Forest Resource Ecological Zone\u201d in the northern province of Cabo Delgado.<\/p>\n

Zheng, who arrived in Mozambique in 1998, owns a timber company called Feishang, in Pemba, the capital city of Cabo Delgado. He is familiar with the country\u2019s timber sector and its problems.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt makes sense that Mozambican people blame Chinese timber companies,\u201d Zheng said, \u201cas we did not bring any real benefits to the locals.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to Zheng, the roughly processed timber required by the Mozambican government was not favoured by Chinese furniture manufacturers. \u201cThat\u2019s why smuggling logs became popular.\u201d His ambition is therefore to relocate the entire value chain to Mozambique.<\/p>\n

\u201cCheap labour and natural resources are already here,\u201d Zheng said. \u201cManufacturers in China just need to step in and my industrial zone is going to be their choice.\u201d<\/p>\n

Two days before I met Zheng, his general manager Zhou Ming took me to the Ecological Zone, in Mocimboa Da Praia, 300 kilometres north of Pemba.<\/p>\n

The 100 square kilometres of land \u2013 which Zhou explained had been acquired from villagers, who would be compensated, with the support of the local government \u2013 were still largely unused.<\/p>\n

There was a single sawmill and wood-drying plant, but they weren\u2019t in operation. There were a few local workers. Two Chinese workers tended a flourishing vegetable garden while cooking an unappetising lunch made from the meat of a pangolin, an endangered species<\/a>.
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\nZhou, in his late 30s, is fluent in Portuguese. He seemed content and settled and had married a local woman of Indian origin. \u201cIt\u2019s not possible to bring a wife here from China,\u201d he said. \u201cGirls don\u2019t like Africa.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The two newly arrived Chinese workers were less situated. A few weeks earlier, someone had cut the wire fence around the factory and stolen a few planks. Scared that local villagers might rob them, they didn\u2019t go out alone.<\/p>\n

According to Zheng\u2019s ambitious plan, the Ecological Zone and related service will expand to 300 hectares by 2020, with an investment of US$200 million (1.3 billion yuan), creating 12,000 job opportunities up and down the value chain, processing wood for furniture and making as much use as possible of any waste.<\/p>\n

Wang Lei, who works for WWF China \u2013 and provides technical support, as part of a programme encouraging Chinese entrepreneurs to act lawfully in Africa \u2013 was hopeful about the project, but told me the major challenge was that the plan relies on private investment. This \u201cmeans if the investment is not realised, then the future of the project will be unpredictable.\u201d<\/p>\n

Still, regarding environmental problems in Africa, Wang asked pointedly: \u201cCan we change these companies and make sure they act according to law without changing the local governing environment?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cMany Chinese entrepreneurs invest in Europe and the United States\u201d without breaking the law, said Wang. \u201cWhy are so many Chinese conducting illegal business here in Africa?\u201d<\/p>\n

Additional Reporting by Estacios Valoy.<\/em><\/p>\n

The investigation is funded by non-profit organisation GEI (Global Environmental Institute).<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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