Intercepted Shipment to China Had Nearly $1 Million in Illegal Wood

Officials in Mozambique intercepted a shipment believed to be going to China that contained 1,300 containers of illegal timber with an estimated value of $800,000, according to AfricaNews.

The report said the country’s director of the national agency for environmental quality control confirmed the shipment was the “largest single seizure of illegal timber” in the country’s history.

The perpetrators, if charged, would have to pay around $900,000 in fines. The logs will be sold at public auction.