Sentences with phrase «illegal timber»

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The Australian government estimates that $ 400 million worth of illegal timber products are sold in the country each year often as outdoor furniture and wood for decks.

The company says it «makes all possible efforts» to keep illegal timber out of its supply chain.

Gibson Guitars» agreement to pay a $ 300,000 fine for its role in importing illegal timber from Madagascar is a major breakthrough in the fight to end the multi-billion dollar global trade in illicit wood, said Global Witness today.

The Global Witness report urged China to impose a ban on illegal timber imports.

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«European countries like Denmark and France now have criminal sanctions to stop illegal timber traders, but authorities just aren't coordinating properly to make sure multinational traders with subsidiaries in several countries are actually respecting the law.

But sadly, you may also stumble on large swaths of land that have been cleared for unsustainable rice cultivation and illegal timber logging.

«Do we actually expect to reduce emissions from deforestation and degradation when the same countries funding REDD are buying illegal timber and palm oil in no - questions - asked markets?»

«DLH must stop purchasing illegal timber from Liberia — there is no excuse for this.

FSC's finding that DLH followed none of its own due diligence procedures casts serious doubt over law enforcement efforts by Danish authorities responsible for policing the import of illegal timber into Europe.

Enacting and enforcing strong laws against illegal timber and timber products trade in the United States, and other key consumer markets, reduces illegal logging and supports governance reform in forest countries.

At the Suifenhe conference, Global Witness was not alone in calling for China to introduce its own legislation prohibiting illegal timber imports.

Many of the impacted species — found in South America, Africa and Southeast Asia — are protected by law, but such measures have not stopped a growing illegal timber trade.

The goal is to reduce demand for illegal timber products and thus discourage illegal logging.

«No importer should accept illegal timber from Liberia.

As VPAs are meant to act as a practical mechanism for identifying and excluding illegal timber from the EU market, under the scheme, timber that is legally harvested and exported to the EU would be identified by means of licenses issued in signatory countries.

«Danish authorities now need to explain why they found DLH legally compliant just months after Global Witness found illegal timber in front of its warehouse in France.»

Danish timber giant Dalhoff Larsen and Horneman (DLH) has been expelled from the world's leading timber certifier, the Forest Stewardship Council, following evidence presented by Global Witness that the company traded illegal timber linked to land grabbing in Liberia.

The Regulation requires companies to follow responsible sourcing standards, also known as due diligence, and not place illegal timber on the EU market.

To regain its certification FSC requires that DLH pays compensation to the rural communities affected by their recent illegal timber trading.

The environment is threatened by wildlife poaching, the climate crisis, and the ongoing illegal timber trade, and EIA feels an acute responsibility to protect the environment for both the humans and species that rely on a healthy planet.

When illegal timber enters the U.S. market, consumers in the United States become unwitting financiers of this illicit trade.

These sawmills are the main driver of forest degradation and are used to launder illegal timber,» he said on his way to San Francisco to collect the prize.

To fund death squads and pro-government militias, Taylor's regime gorged on profits from illegal timber sales.

Illegal timber traders in the tropics are holding back information about the species of timber that they are cutting and exporting, ad so circumventing efforts to conserve certain species, according to a report on the illegal tropical timber trade published this week by TRAFFIC, a network of conservation organisations that monitors trade in wildlife.

Review November 2017 exposés of illegal timber trade by Global Witness and the Center for International Environmental Law

Danish timber giant Dalhoff Larsen and Horneman (DLH) purchased illegal timber worth $ 304,870 from Liberia in 2012, Global Witness revealed today.

Despite the best efforts of my organisation, and many others, to highlight the threats which could be caused by Brexit to wildlife protection, clean beaches, the hazards of air pollution, illegal timber imports and toxics, these issues received very little media attention either during the referendum campaign - or since.

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.

mahama at dixcove (10) The Paramount Chief appealed for logistical support to the forest guards of the Forestry Commission, in order to curb the illegal timber logging concern.

- Measures to make the import or possession of illegal timber a criminal offence.

A new illegal trade «alliance» Yesterday, in an effort to chip away at the illegal timber trade, which is a key driver of deforestation along with agricultural expansion, a coalition of businesses, paper organizations and international groups banded together to form the Forest Legality Alliance.

Most logging cartels are now raiding protected areas, and almost all of the illegal timber goes to international markets, says Curran, who spent over a decade doing fieldwork from logging camps.

With vast territory to cover across Peru, government authorities are working hard to fight the illegal timber trade that often goes on deep in the jungle.

Greenpeace called attention to a cargo of illegal timber being imported into Miami.

«If laws in major consumer countries banning the import of illegal timber are worth their salt, they will prevent the entry of products made from illegal Private Use Permit timber from Liberia,» said Gant.

The U.S., E.U. and Australia have passed laws forbidding the import of illegal timber or products made from illegal timber.

WWF must make membership of the scheme conditional on companies following sustainable, ethical and legal practices and prohibit any company from participating if it continues to destroy natural forest, trade in illegal timber, or is involved in human rights abuses.

Any further imports of illegal timber into Europe would also make the company liable to criminal sanctions under the EU's new Timber Regulations, which came into force on 3 March 2013, and bans illegal timber imports, requiring companies importing timber into the region to carry out thorough checks to ensure that the timber was logged according to the producer country's laws.

«In buying this illegal timber, DLH has helped steal valuable resources from one of the poorest countries in the world.

Source: Global Witness field investigation; Yunnan Province, China; May 2006 [6] In October 2005, in direct response to Global Witness» report «A Choice for China» the governments of both Burma and China publicly denied that any illegal timber trade took place between the two countries.

However, in the last six months the two governments have had at least three high - level meetings on curbing the illegal timber trade: in November 2005, February 2006 and April 2006.

Global Witness submitted evidence concerning DLH, whose global headquarters is based in Denmark, to the Danish Nature Agency, the authority responsible for enforcing the EU's Timber Regulation against the illegal timber trade.

All illegal timber traders should pay reparations to those who've suffered as a result, but thus far DLH has enjoyed complete impunity for its illegal trade with companies linked to Charles Taylor.

Call for Danish and European regulators of the EU's illegal timber ban to answer for potential failures to enforce rules against the Danish «conflict timber» trader

GAT was also only required to pay royalties on the logs when it should have been fined between two and three times the value of the illegal timber.

Half of all the illegal timber was destined for China, the largest consumer and a major processing hub.