The government of Rwanda canceled the contract with the company that leased the Gishwati forest.

The Ministry of Environment, wrote to the company called IKIZERE Silviculture ltd, which leased the  Gishwati forest to the people, that the contract it had with the Government of Rwanda to manage and maintain the forest has been temporarily suspended, pending the results of the ongoing inspection.

The people who worked with this company that had been granted permission, said that they went bankrupt because they had paid a lot of money to this company but they were forbidden to harvest forests and do other activities.

The people who worked with this company that had been granted permission, say that they went bankrupt because they had paid a lot of money to this company, but they were prohibited from harvesting the forests and doing other activities.

He said, “There is nothing we can do anymore because there are plans that are being updated. I took the coal I had on August 11, 2024, when he reached the road, they said he was not allowed to leave, they locked him there.”

The director of Company IKIZERE Silviculture Limited, Mugigana Jean Berchmas, asks the people to be patient, and the government will first carry out inspections of non-compliance with the agreement.

Another Gishwati forest is a park located in Rutsiro and Ngororero Districts in the Western Province of the country, which is 3,558 hectares, including the Gishwati area with an area of ​​1,570 hectares, and the Mukura area with an area of ​​1,988 hectares. .

The Mukura forest was turned into a park in 2015 and it was called the Gishwati-Mukura National Park, since then the government and its partners began to take care of it by planting and removing trees to make it a national park. There have been reclamation activities both on the Mukura side and on the Gishwati side.

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