Sentences with phrase «global logging companies»

For global logging companies, Nigerian forests appear to be an easy target.

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Global Witness released a report yesterday claiming that WWF's partnerships with logging companies, created to bring sustainability to the global timber industry, have instead had the opposite effect and facilitated illegal lGlobal Witness released a report yesterday claiming that WWF's partnerships with logging companies, created to bring sustainability to the global timber industry, have instead had the opposite effect and facilitated illegal lglobal timber industry, have instead had the opposite effect and facilitated illegal logging

The logging company Atlantic Resources has shipped millions of dollars worth of illegal timber from Liberia in breach of President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf's August order to halt timber exports, Global Witness revealed today.

«Since 2001, Global Witness has exposed how Liberian logging companies actively organise and oversee the importation of arms for both the Liberian government and Liberian government - backed rebel groups in neighbouring countries (10),» says Blondel.

Global Witness» investigations show that DLH purchased 1,281 m ³ of timber from two Liberian companies in 2012, which was cut under logging contracts called Private Use Permits (PUPs) and exported to Bangladesh, China and France.

Global Witness has previously exposed illegal logging by Samling in Cambodia as well as evidence of legal breaches by two Samling - associated companies in Liberia.

Despite years of denials, in April 2003 President Taylor's spokesperson Vaani Paasewe admitted in an interview that «it was true that, as Global Witness said in its report, revenues from Liberia's logging industry had been used to import weapons recently despite the UN arms embargo...» (1) Taylor referred to OTC as his «pepperbush» — a Liberian expression implying a personal interest, and a warning to people to leave the company alone.

(2) Research undertaken by Global Witness (www.globalwitness.org) and Profundo (www.profundo.nl) examined all known loans, bonds and shareholdings, for the period 2010 — 2013, connected to 50 of the world's biggest companies with significant logging or pulp & paper divisions affecting tropical forests.

Movie - star Governor turned environmental champion Arnold Schwarzenegger is part owner of an investment company backing some of the world's most destructive logging companies, Global Witness reveals today.

Investigations by Global Witness found illegally felled logs from Liberia in ports in France shortly before the ban came in, underlining the need for companies to to carry out checks on their supply chain and avoid possible criminal penalties.

From a political perspective, these tax credits have three very powerful constituencies: 1) All taxpayers 2) Major companies looking to reduce their tax burden while doing something good for the environment 3) Landowners, farmers, ranchers, and the forest products industry (these groups will be eligible for tax credits for reforestation or agricultural changes on their own land; organizations such as the National Farmers Union, the American Forest and Paper Association, the National Alliance of Forest Owners, United Steelworkers, and many others have already been advocates for protection of tropical forests and cracking down on illegal logging as a way to level the playing field by ensuring products on the global market don't come from deforestation.)

Charmian Gooch jointly led Global Witness's first campaign, exposing the trade in timber between the Khmer Rouge and Thai logging companies and their political and military backers.

(09/10/2013) Japanese companies are failing to keep illegally logged timber from entering their supply chains, international human rights and environmental watchdog Global Witness said in a report released today.