Sentences with phrase «illegal logging»

Instead, ELCs became a way to cover up illegal logging operations targeting specific species such as rosewood.

In the hopes that global attention would force the Cambodian government to change its ways, Ouch sought to expose its role in illegal logging to the international community.

Honduran hitmen kill fifth indigenous land activist amid protests against mining and illegal logging

In Malaysian Borneo, 276 Iban families from 15 longhouses are suing timber companies and the government for pollution, trespassing and illegal logging on their land.

In Cambodia, illegal logging is driven by the trade in high - value rosewood and is leading to violence against environmental activists.

All told, illegal logging has devastated public forests around the globe, reducing incentives for locals to invest in sustainable forestry and accumulating losses of revenue to governments of some $ 15 billion annually.

The effectiveness of this ban remains to be seen, considering the ambitiousness of the production goal and the government's ongoing struggle to limit illegal logging.

When Manuel Zelaya was sworn in as Honduran President in 2006, he promised he would bring an end to the illegal logging that ravaged the country.

To ensure they are effective, REDD schemes need to prioritise securing indigenous land tenure, clamp down on industrial offenders of illegal logging, and agree real reductions in deforestation — with penalties for failure that bite.

Switzerland - based Bruno Manser Fund claimed the wood could be traced back to Shin Yang, a Malaysian logging giant accused of human - rights violations, illegal logging and rainforest destruction.

Major reforms in information management and dissemination are needed if implementation of the VPAs is going to lead the way to overcoming endemic illegal logging.

Demand - driven illegal logging in Indonesia is destroying one of the world's most important remaining tracts of undisturbed tropical forest.

With the help of this system, known as Project Monitoring Deforestation in the Amazon (PRODES), along with improvements in land management on a local and federal level, that has allowed for illegal logging practices to slow in recent years.

Now, 107 companies are being sued to the tune of $ 833 million for the illegal logging and smuggling of nearly 1.7 million cubic meters of timer — the equivalent of 780 olympic pools full of felled trees.

One is the right to exclude or expel intruders or unwanted people from the area, which can cut down on activities like illegal logging.

Groups such as the Amazon Conservation Team and Amazon Watch have used it in efforts to halt illegal logging and the proposed construction of a dam on the Amazon River.»

Scott Wallace, a Ted Scripps Fellow in Environmental Journalism at the University of Colorado - Boulder, wrote about Edwin Chota and illegal logging in Peru in the April 2013 issue of National Geographic.

Illegal logging, however, continues to threaten forests, often on private land surrounding managed areas, Michael J. Miller of the University of South Florida reports in the Journal of Environment and Development.

«Before Darong and Yoh were executed, their team had a few hours earlier confiscated chainsaws from an illegal logging site.

Edwin Chota pauses while on a mission to overtake and expel an illegal logging crew from his community's land claim in the headwaters of the Alto Tamaya River, near Peru's border with Brazil.

«At WCS, we extend our heartfelt condolences to the families of our two Royal Government of Cambodia partners Sieng Darong, a Forestry Administration ranger and Sab Yoh, a police officer, killed on November 7 in the Preah Vihear Protected Forest while they were bravely patrolling to stop illegal logging and poaching.

Home to some of the world's last remaining primary rainforest, the Indonesian Archipelago is under siege from illegal logging, says Indonesian environmental group, Telapak, and the Environmental Investigation Agency.

Illegal logging in the Mexican forests where they spend the winter, new climate patterns and the disappearance of milkweed — the only plant on which monarchs lay their eggs and on which their caterpillars feed — are being blamed for their shrinking numbers.

Illegal logging accounts for more than half of timber production in Russia, Indonesia, Brazil, and Cameroon.

During Taylor's rule, Siakor painstakingly collected evidence of falsified logging records, illegal logging practices and associated human rights abuses.

Not so surprising: poorer, more corrupt governments will foster environments more likely to contain rampant illegal logging.

A new article in China Dialogue brings to light a new angle on one very aggravating factor on the overwhelming devastation: Illegal logging by the «timber

... illegal logging is not on the decline, rather it is becoming more advanced as cartels become better organized including shifting their illegal activities in order to avoid national or local police efforts.

To prevent illegal logging in rainforests, a company called Helveta is deploying bar code technology to forest companies.

Not many environmentalists are willing to take warlords to task for their involvement in illegal logging activities.

Good news and bad news coming out of the think tank Chatham House today: According to their new report, Illegal Logging and Related Trade, the amount of timber chopped down and produced illegally has fallen 22 % since 2002

TH: What were your methods of getting hold of the evidence of falsified logging records, illegal logging practices and associated human rights abuses?

The Distrito Federal loses on average 1,000 acres (400 hectares) of natural areas per year, and while the state has set aside 200,000 acres (80,000 hectares) for conservation purposes, only 158,000 acres (64,000 hectares) remain due to illegal logging and squatting.

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.

We know that illegal logging contributed to the devastation caused by last summer's flooding in Pakistan, when up to 20 % of the nation was underwater.

Illegal logging is driving the lion's share of deforestation in the world's rain forests, and organized crime is to blame for almost all of it.

An un-contacted tribe is found in the Amazon — another forest community threatened by illegal logging.

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

A few months ago Brazil announced that rates of deforestation in the Amazon increased 3.8 % over the previous year and that it would be taking steps to crack down on illegal logging, land clearing (sometimes by burning) and illegal settlements.

Illegal logging has been on the upswing after political unrest over the last two years, and the financing will provide much - needed support for 30 national parks and three new protected areas covering 2,7 million hectares.

But no, this wasn't a statement on modern love, it was part of an event called Marry a Tree, and it is helping to raise awareness about illegal logging and deforestation in the state of Oaxaca.

But now, illegal logging and the burning of forests are making the country the third

In this light and photography installation dubbed Street Art 2.0, French photographer and self - professed «activist artist» Philippe Echaroux projected images of the indigenous Surui people on the trees of the Amazonian rainforest, as a powerful reminder of the threats that the Surui and their rainforest home face with rampant illegal logging and mining.

EIA's series of videos exposing Holzindustrie Schweighofer's involvement in illegal logging in Romania,

Leng, who chairs the Cambodia Human Rights Task Forces organization, says the Goldman Prize money will help support forest patrols and community - level efforts to combat illegal logging.

Leng's tenacious and perilous crusade to stop illegal logging and stop land concessions from forcing Cambodians out of their homes has won him a Goldman Environmental Prize, which honors grassroots environmental activism.

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.

Following an Associated Press investigation, EIA provides response to the continued illegal logging exposed in Peru

Drawn into politics, he moved to a nongovernmental organization and began investigating illegal logging.

At least five deaths in Cambodia have been linked to illegal logging since 2007, including that of Leng's fellow environmentalist Chut Wutthy, who was fatally shot in 2012 while showing journalists a logging camp in the southwest's Koh Kong province.