Mustapha Gueye was brutally murdered by illegal loggers. The incident occurred when Mustapha Gueye awoke to the buzz of a chainsaw outside his home in Sam Yero Gueye, a small village in the scrublands of Kolda Region on the Senegalese border with Gambia. Mustapha got up to investigate; 300 metres outside his village he was ambushed by loggers who broke both his legs, one of his arms, and then killed him with a blow to his skull. According to his brother, de murder was motivated due to Gueyes opposition to logging. Over the last decade the forests of southern Senegal have been steadily depleted of rosewood and other slow-growth tropical hardwood species. Loggers, taking advantage of the lack of regulation in nearby Gambia and the porous border between the two countries, sell to Gambian middlemen who then export the wood to Asia.