Sentences with phrase «ferreira timber company»

WHEN Tasmanian forestry products heavyweight Gunns missed out on securing the assets of defunct agribusiness company Timbercorp, those vying for assets of another failed timber company knew they were in trouble.

Ari Levy, manager of TD Asset Management's resource fund, says eastern timber companies aren't the same as western ones.

Timber company Gunns has put itself into the bidder's circle for Great Southern's assets, a day after it lost its bid for Timbercorp's forestry assets to a US - based company.

The fund is based on the Beacon Global Timber Index, which is made up of timber companies and REITs.

Weyerhaeuser Co. (NYSE: WY) Weyerhaeuser is one of America's leading timber companies.

For investors wanting a niche ETF, the Claymore / Beacon Global Timber ETF (NYSEArca: CUT) gives investors 18 percent exposure to Finland and Sweden through a handful of timber companies based in the region.

There had been a major backlash against the Tamar Ridge brand in the late 2000s when it was still owned by timber company Gunns, which was in the spotlight over environmental issues in Tasmania related to a proposed pulp mill.

Filed by Protect the Adirondacks and Adirondack Wild, the lawsuit claims the Adirondack Park Agency and Department of Environmental Conservation broke state law in approving plans for former timber company land centered around the Essex Chain of Lakes between Indian Lake and Newcomb in Essex and Hamilton counties.

He said much of the property where the trail would run is «essentially a former tree farm» that has roads servicing some 20 private hunting camps leased by the timber company.

Buddy set up shop on a snowy mountaintop owned by the timber company.

Padua and his team captured a family of black lion tamarins in the Rio Claro Farm (a forest managed by the timber company Duratex) and moved them to forest where black lion tamarins formerly lived.

But the economic implications are clear to him: Timber companies probably can't do the job because good thinning is not profitable.

This year's record - breaking fire season prompted President Bush to propose a plan that would emphasize thinning by private timber companies, which almost always use mechanical methods.

«It was widely opposed by conservationists, sportsmen, business and even some timber companies for dispensing with environmental laws and public involvement in order to ramp up unsustainable logging levels,» he said.

ÊExploitative timber companies are equally destructive.

Daniel McGowan, an ELF member, faces life in prison for two multi-million dollar arsons against Oregon timber companies.

He runs a tree - poisoning business, in which and he and his men prepare stubborn trees for timber companies.

He had interests in timber companies, newspaper publishing, cable television, software, and the Internet.

I commented about the current cashflow issues of a lot of the farming companies, but I'm sure I'll be investing again in some of them — meanwhile, I get to bail out of Black Earth by making a 1 minute call to my broker, and the proceeds now allow me to contemplate a listed timber company investment instead at a huge discount...

Plum Creek Timber Company (Ticker: PCL) Owns and operates logging forests and produces products like plywood, lumber, etc..

Like, NACCO and BWX Technologies and Omnicom and Keweenaw Land Association (a timber company) should all be able to have a sustainable «real» rate of growth.

Land Development Minister James Masing blamed unscrupulous timber companies and said that whoever caused the problem should be punished.

Project partners include four SFI Program Participants: Hancock Timber Resource Group, Lyme Timber Company, LandVest, and Resource Management Service, who will each host a study site.

Logging in the US accounts for about 7 % of our CO2 emissions, a fact that is hidden and lied about by the timber companies (they disguise this in our net sequestration figure).

The timber companies like to plant commercial species like doug fir within a year or two of clearcutting, so they kill what comes up naturally first.

The criminal part to all these stories is it's cheaper for winery owners, timber companies, etc. to pay the fine for clearcutting and breaking the law than it is to adhere to the codes.

Timber companies here and abroad typically have political influence far greater than their economic contributions would justify.

Kajir has served as chief executive officer of the Environmental Law Centre in Port Moresby and was the lead attorney in a Supreme Court case aimed at stopping foreign timber companies» large - scale, illegal deforestation practices, often accompanied by threats of harm to local landholders who dare to challenge them.

The latest in EIA's video series, The»S» Files, Depot Deception shows that Holzindustrie Schweighofer, one of the largest timber companies in Europe, appears to be systematically...

The four - person company is still largely in the testing phase, but they think they'll be able to start working with environmental groups and timber companies within the next year.

Finnish timber companies go on sharing their experience and the best practice on implementing efficient and sustainable forestry with Russia...

Samartex Timber & Plywood Ltd — a leading socially responsible timber company founded in 1995 in Ghana and managing 150,308 ha of tropical forests.

A third timber company, the Swiss - German Danzer Group, has a subsidiary which has been repeatedly involved in conflicts with local communities resulting in human rights abuses, including allegations of rapes and beatings by state forces, yet the Danzer Group continues to enjoy membership to the scheme.

The timber industry has not yet been sufficiently reformed to ensure that revenue will be captured or that the Forestry Development Authority (FDA)- the government agency responsible for the timber industry and forests - will be able to control the operations of timber companies.

Cambodian activist Leng Ouch spent years working undercover, posing as a laborer at a timber company while collecting GPS and photographic evidence of illegal logging.

Last year, devastating fires swept across Indonesia and neighboring countries, thanks to decades of slash - and - burn clearing of forests and peatlands, mostly by palm oil and timber companies.

Are American private timber companies any better than their neighbours in BC?

Another key critic of SFI is Sierra Club, which in 2009 filed a complaint against SFI - certified timber company Weyerhaeuser for conducting irresponsible logging on extremely steep and unstable slopes — actions that resulted in massive landslides and extensive damage to public and private property.

Kouwenhoven, a Dutch national, was General Manager of the Oriental Timber Company (OTC), Liberia's biggest logging company during the regime of former president Charles Taylor.

Additionally, the forest has created learning opportunities for the timber companies in the area and a dialog between those companies and the local community.

In other words, that is only true if you assume that the timber companies will continue operating the way they always have and which has the least direct cost to them.

I live in western Montana and the timber companies are not responsible stewards of the forest.

He argues that allowing timber companies to log forests will reduce the severity of fires.

Allowing the timber companies to log the forests increases the severity of fires.

As highlighted in recent letters to the United Nations by numerous international organisations (viii), the timber industry and shipping and corporate registries threaten both global environmental damage, and with regard to many Liberian timber companies, are actively engaged in financing human rights abusing militias and illegal arms transfers.

That's what happens when timber companies get to do as they please.

As timber companies move into Central Africa's forests, apes increasingly have to find ways to survive in the altered forests they call home.

Between training sessions with us, they would return to their villages, with specific tasks: To teach village members about the regulations that applied to the timber companies; to map their communities» traditional land use and boundaries; to learn about their village's indigenous knowledge and management of wildlife; to help organize a system for monitoring the timber companies; to develop a series of wildlife management scenarios acceptable to their communities; etc..

Cameroon's minister of forestry and wildlife, Philip Ngole Ngwese, recently announced that the government has suspended 27 logging licenses from timber companies that have continuously violated forest - protection legislation.

EIA Investigators found clear cases of illegal logging, linked to the Austrian Timber company Holzindustrie Schweighofer, in Romania's Rodna Mountains National Park