Sentences with phrase «when illegal timber»

When illegal timber enters the U.S. market, consumers in the United States become unwitting financiers of this illicit trade.

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GAT was also only required to pay royalties on the logs when it should have been fined between two and three times the value of the illegal timber.

When we think of timber from lush, tropical forests, it conjures up images of valuable old - growth trees pillaged by logging companies and illegal...

Back when 20 % of Pakistan was underwater, I wrote about the influence of deforestation on the flooding — deforestation caused in no small part by illegal logging at the hands of the so - called timber mafia, a group with

Back when 20 % of Pakistan was underwater, I wrote about the influence of deforestation on the flooding — deforestation caused in no small part by illegal logging at the hands of the so - called timber mafia, a group with direct ties to the Taliban.