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Chainsaw milling in Ghana: context, drivers and impacts4.2.4 Other factorsOther factors, based on stakeholder perceptions, also drive CSM (Figure 4). Inaddition, the coping strategies adopted by operators make it difficult to arrest them.Narrative reports in Nutakor and Marfo (2009) indicate that many CSM operatorswork at night, making it dangerous for community members to confront them. Insome instances, even though local people know who the operators are within thecommunity, forestry officials and the police are said to tacitly refuse to use informationfrom community members. 11 Some local people said that this frustrated theirefforts to protect the resources in their forests (Nutakor and Marfo 2009). For thisand many other reasons, cited for instance by Odoom (2005), farmers and communitiesfind no incentive to cooperate with the FC and in fact connive with the illegalloggers to benefit from a share of the resource.Figure 4. Stakeholders’ perception of the main reason for ineffective ban enforcementcorruption, FSD officialsunemploymentcorruption, law enforcement agencieslack of political willinsufficient consultationcompetitive price of chainsawn lumberother reasonsineffectiveness of courtslack of authorisation of chiefslack of capacity, FSD0 5 10 15 20 25 30Source: Marfo and Nutakor 2009; n = 30836