All export licenses have been revoked in the country to try to fight illegal logging.
The port authorities have been told to refuse to load timber logs onto any vessel because of the ban.
An investigation by the British Broadcasting Corporation in 2020 showed that a lot of Rosewood was being smuggled through the country.
It's used to make furniture in China.
Cites, the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species, called for the suspension of its trade last month.
Despite declaring its own Rosewood stocks close to extinction almost a decade ago, the Gambia is still one of the largest exporters of West African Rosewood in the world.
One of the most traded wildlife products in the world is rosewood.
Hongmu is also known as red wood and is used for furniture.
According to the figures obtained by the Africa Eye, China imported more than 300,000 tonnes from The Gambia over the course of the last two years.
It's the equivalent of half a million trees and worth more than 100 million dollars.
Multiple sources have told the BBC that the rosewood being shipped out of The Gambia to China came from the Casamance region of southernSenegal.
The border between the two countries was found to contain at least 12 depots with timber. They were all in the country of the Gambia.
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