Sentences with phrase «foreign timber companies»

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.

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In London, the World Rainforest Movement claimed that, far from conserving the forest, the project would act as a magnet for foreign timber and mining companies to move into the remote interior of Guyana.