Sentences with phrase «by illegal loggers»

A year after four Ashéninka men were killed by illegal loggers, their community has secured rights to the territory

Their case shot to the world's attention last September, when four of their number were killed, allegedly by illegal loggers: Edwin Chota, Jorge Ríos Pérez, Leoncio Quinticima and Francisco Pinedo.

In recent years, several forest activists have been attacked and even killed by illegal loggers and other special interests who broker deals with corrupt local politicians and courts.

The program will involve training young people in the State — often recruited by illegal loggers and poachers — in sustainable economic activities such as bee keeping and mushroom farming.

Madagascar's unparalleled National Parks, which are also UNESCO World Heritage sites, are being infiltrated and destroyed by illegal loggers.

NEWS: A year after four Ashéninka men were killed by illegal loggers, their community has secured rights to the territory

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Even without the palm oil, it faces a myriad of other threats, from raids by bush meat hunters trapping and shooting primates, antelopes and elephants, to incursions from illegal loggers and miners prospecting for iron ore.

Governments and their partners should help protect community forest rights by, for example, mapping community forest boundaries, helping to expel illegal loggers, and not granting commercial concessions over community forests.

The Brazilian government has been stepping up their pressure on illegal loggers and cattle ranchers by halting bank loans and confiscating products.

Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon has ebbed significantly in recent years due to better monitoring by the federal authorities and a series of major sting operations against illegal loggers.

The bill now advances to the Senate for review, and must ultimately be signed by President Rousseff, who has vowed to veto any measure containing amnesty for illegal loggers or allowing new deforestation.

The Enemy is Ourselves: Worst Illegal Amazonian Loggers Revealed by Brazilian Environment Minister

While national laws recognize communities» rights to their forests, government agencies undermine those rights by failing to expel illegal settlers and loggers or allocating community forests for mining and hydrocarbon extraction.

We are very concerned... because the territory of this tigress and its cubs is being rapidly cleared by two global paper companies, palm oil plantations, encroachers and illegal loggers.

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