Sentences with phrase «illegal exports of»

The state's arts minister, Kay Hallahan, wrote to her federal counterpart, Wendy Fatin, last week, urging her to retrieve the meteorite and to prosecute any Australians who assist in the illegal export of meteorites.

But that doesn't mean the flow is stopping - the illegal export of e-waste is all too common.

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In June 2013 Animals Australia was documenting evidence of live export breaches in Jordan when information was supplied about the illegal onward trucking of Australian sheep from Jordan to Lebanon — a country that is not approved to import Australian animals.

During our latest live export investigations across the Middle East and Asia, Animals Australia undercover investigators uncover evidence of widespread, ongoing, illegal and brutal animal abuse.

Given that some Chinese poultry farmers allegedly used large quantities of illegal drugs in raising chickens sold to KFC, and given the potential vulnerability of young school children eating such chicken, a lifting of the export ban on raw Chinese poultry is a cause for serious concern.

These checks are important because of reports that Chinese cities, notably Dalian, have been used to channel illegal exports to North Korea.

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Clark nonchalantly let slip that he had encouraged the sales, to the great embarrassment of the Conservative government, and the executives charged with the illegal exports were acquitted.

CITES, the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, has banned exports of all four Asian species since 2000; two, the Chinese pangolin and the Sunda pangolin, were listed as endangered in the IUCN's Red List in 2008, making all international trade in them or their parts illegal.

... this report... documents the systematic export and import of illegal wood from Peru to the US....»

As Japan has began supporting the genre as one of their important cultural exports, there seems to be no end of illegal uploading of anime and manga via pirating sites, mainly operated by the Chinese.

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Since the median wage of the American worker is going down because of outsourcing, illegal immigration, export of factories, and foreign competition, consumers won't have the resources to bail out the US economy anymore, especially with the rising costs of energy, health, and education.

By the terms of the agreement, Gibson concedes that after traveling to Madagascar in 2008, it received a report concluding that «It is currently illegal to harvest or export ebony.»

«Gibson has ceased acquisitions of wood species from Madagascar and recognizes its duty under the U.S. Lacey Act to guard against the acquisition of wood of illegal origin by verifying the circumstances of its harvest and export, which is good for American business and American consumers.»

The Lacey Act applies from «stump to shelf,» making it illegal «to import, export, transport, sell, receive, acquire, or purchase any fish or wildlife or plant taken, possessed, transported, or sold in violation of any law, treaty, or regulation of the United States or in violation of any Indian tribal law.»

These are the most significant illegal log exports since the timber - fuelled civil wars of the Charles Taylor era, and threaten to undermine the progress the President has made in bringing order to the forest sector.

EIA's report, The Dirty Secrets of Japan's Illegal Ivory Trade, reveals a 20 - year history of broken commitments by Japan to enact effective controls to prevent poached tusks from being sold domestically or for illegal Illegal Ivory Trade, reveals a 20 - year history of broken commitments by Japan to enact effective controls to prevent poached tusks from being sold domestically or for illegal illegal export.

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.

«In a country where only a few years ago timber exports helped finance a brutal war, these shipments of illegal logs from Liberia represent a deeply troubling breakdown in the rule of law,» said Jonathan Gant of Global Witness.

EIA's report, The Dirty Secrets of Japan's Illegal Ivory Trade, reveal a 20 - year history of broken commitments by Japan to enact effective controls to prevent poached tusks from being sold domestically or for illegal Illegal Ivory Trade, reveal a 20 - year history of broken commitments by Japan to enact effective controls to prevent poached tusks from being sold domestically or for illegal illegal export.

In response to campaigns launched by climate activists to impose regulations and controls on U.S. exports of coal, liquefied natural gas and oil, corporate trade lawyers and dirty energy apologists are insisting that government controls on fossil fuel exports are illegal under international trade and investment law.

The benefit of this would not only be to pre-empt any such externally imposed carbon tariff on China's exports (under international trade rules, a carbon tariff on goods from a country with a carbon tax would probably be illegal), but it would also allow the Chinese government to collect revenue of such a tax rather than to see it go to a foreign government.

(07/12/2009) A Brazilian federal prosecutor is leading an investigation into charges that illegal timber from the state of Pará is being laundered as «eco-certified» wood and exported to markets in the United States, Europe, and Asia, reports Sunday's edition of O Globo.

«China and Mexico are fueling illegal logging and conflict in the Peruvian Amazon by turning a blind eye to their illegal imports,» said Handy, noting that over 70 % of the timber sources verified in 2015 exports to these two countries were on Osinfor's red list.

In Romania, Greenpeace and the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) have reported widespread illegal logging, with much of the timber exported for burning in power stations in Austria and Germany.

Large scale illegal log exports to Laos, which were halted in July 1998 as a result of Global Witness» pressure have resumed, despite Cambodia's commitment to crack down on illegal logging at the Tokyo CG meeting.

Dutch Foreign Minister Bernard Bot, speaking on behalf of the 25 member states after their recent meeting on the situation in Burma, called on the EU Commission «to produce specific proposals to address the issue of illegal logging, including opportunities for decreasing deforestation in, and export of, teak from Burma».

To do so, WWF works to strengthen the US government's ability to prosecute illegal timber cases; stop illegal logging in countries that export high volumes of timber; ensure full implementation of the Lacey Act, a US law that prohibits illegal timber and timber products from entering the US market; and design rural energy programs that rely on fuels other than firewood.

New evidence reveals a twenty year history of broken commitments by Japan to enact effective controls to prevent poached tusks from being sold domestically or for illegal export.

... this report... documents the systematic export and import of illegal wood from Peru to the US....»

There is a wide range of drug - related offences in the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act (also called the CDSA) including simple possession, possession for the purpose of trafficking, trafficking, importing and exporting, and production of illegal drugs including marijuana, cocaine, crack cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine, and MDMA.

Possession, production, and distribution outside of the legalized system would remain illegal, as would imports or exports without a federal permit.

Perform the tasks of conducting investigations on human trafficking and export of illegal weapons