The aim of this story is to understand and learn how climate change and environmental protection is being tackled in other countries but within Africa. Focus on environmental stories across Africa Yipala is nestled among flat grassland sparsely dotted with towering aged trees. Every few miles, mounds of shea nuts are drying in the early morning sun. And in the depths of the community, a rogue timber factory waits to resume operations. The factory, whose activities are entirely illegal, has been shuttered at least twice. Since its last government shutdown in 2022, none of the factory’s machines have been destroyed nor its vast logs of rosewood burned as a deterrent. Giant cuts of rosewood in the hundreds are stacked high in the backyard. Heavy machinery with labels and instructions written in Mandarin lay waiting to begin slicing and dicing. It epitomizes the battle underway to protect Ghana’s portion of the threatened Upper Guinean forests – one of the world’s most bi...