Fighting illegal logging in Ghana with an app
By DW
21 November 2020 |
3:37 pm
In Ghana's Bia National Forest an NGO is working with a local partner to develop an app that monitors illegal logging and rewards legal harvesting. The group hopes to use the technology in other parts of the country.
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