Sentences with phrase «logging companies»

Except for in protected areas, the region has been targeted by logging companies over the last thirty years.
Apparently, logging companies in the congressman's district are having a hard time competing with their counterparts north of the border.
For global logging companies, Nigerian forests appear to be an easy target.
The methodology proposed in this study could help logging companies and local authorities predict economic and social effects from the utilization of energy wood.
As roads were limited to those built by individual logging companies, all transportation was by ship or float plane.
In addition, the state receives taxes on all profits made by logging companies.
They say that effective partnerships with logging companies and other industries are now essential to the Bornean orangutan's survival.
Though many logging companies replant felled trees on a one - to - one basis, environmentalists believe these replacement forests (which are often harvested once the trees reach a certain age) are not as effective at storing carbon dioxide as old - growth forests.
Terror was created in the raids for heads and women in Africa, Assam and Iryan Jaya, the raids for pillage by Vikings, Vandals and Visigoths, and the raids for land by nearly every people from the time of Genghis Khan to the settling of the American frontier to the development of logging companies in contemporary Brazil.
The security forces reportedly received financial and logistical help, in the form of transport and payment, from logging company Siforco S.A.R.L. (Société Industrielle et Forestière du Congo), which at the time was a subsidiary of the Danzer Group.
He sells and maintains them for logging companies in B.C. and also to Oregon and New Zealand.
According to Survival International in London: «In reality the seven logging companies operating in the area have been plundering the forest.
AUBURN, N.Y. — The owner of a New York logging company will spend between one and three years in prison after being convicted of stealing more than $ 83,000 in workers» compensation benefits — all while incidentally failing to provide those benefits to his employees.
Rosamond is doggedly optimistic, even though everyone from local logging companies to Sen. John McCain (R - Ariz.)
This is a rare place where endangered Sumatran tigers, elephants, rhinos, and orangutans all live in the same ecosystem, and while some is marked as national park, other areas of the landscape have permits pending for deforestation by large logging companies.
Chipko Andolan literally translates to Stick (as in cling) Protest, as the mostly women who took part in the struggle against logging companies stood their ground by wrapping their arms around the trees that were scheduled to be felled.
Over the next decade, the region saw logging companies...
Log felling and export continues in the southeast, where logging companies MWPI, RTC, TTCO, Cavalla and others are still active.
Environmental groups like World Wildlife and Greenpeace have leveled similar charges at many other logging companies and importers.
Many logging companies continue to be actively engaged in illegal arms imports for the government, committing human rights abuses and destabilising Liberia and the entire West Africa sub-region.
SDI's actions were behind the cancellation of all the illegal permits issued to logging companies between 2010 and 2012, protecting more than 2 million hectares of forests in Liberia.
The indigenous people's closeness to and care for nature can help counteract the attack of the multinational logging companies on the forests of their countries as in Latin America.
Armstrong argues that logging companies already operate under tight guidelines to preserve stream habitats.
Kajir found evidence of widespread government corruption that allowed logging companies to act as a law unto themselves, ignoring the terms of the government - issued timber permits, and terrorizing the local communities — at gunpoint in some cases — into signing over their land rights.
Running from her past, Amber takes a job at a family logging company.
The average productivity of operations in the Russian logging companies investigated was 20 % to 30 % lower than that in Finland.
The province was largely undisturbed until the 1950s when state logging companies started clear - cutting old - growth forests to fuel China's national economic boom.
Biding time until his star soars post-Aquaman, Momoa plays logging company boss Joe Braven, a hardy working class type, loving husband to Stephanie (Jill Wagner, reteaming with Momoa after 2014's Road to Paloma) and best - friend / dad to pre-teen Charlotte (Sasha Rossof).
«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.
The Global Witness briefing, Pandering to the Loggers, discovered that major Malaysian logging company Ta Ann Holdings Berhad, which is a paying member of the scheme, has forest operations destroying rainforest at the equivalent rate of 20 football pitches a day, including orang - utan habitat within the boundaries of WWF's own «Heart of Borneo» project.
[1], [2] This unprecedented move follows a decade of rapacious logging by Chinese logging companies in Burma's northern forests.
The corruption runs so deep, he said, that even confiscated wood is often sold back to the same logging companies.
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.
(09/15/2009) An independent review of Interhill Logging found that the Sarawak logging company has regularly violated forest laws and abused the rights of the indigenous Penan peoples.
Global Witness and UN Expert Panels have uncovered numerous violations of current UNSC sanctions by the Liberian government and timber companies, continued human rights abuses by parastatal logging company militias, and significant inaccuracies in the UN's own research of the Liberian timber industry: · The Oriental Timber Company (OTC) and Maryland Wood Processing Industries (MWPI), have continued to oversee the importation and stockpiling of illegal weapons, in contravention of UN sanctions.
Meanwhile, NAMM's campaign is allowing Asian logging companies that have long wanted to weaken or repeal the Lacey Act to hide behind musicians in support of proposed legislation that legal experts and environmentalists say would have devastating impacts for forests and jobs.
Greenpeace has campaigned for decades to encourage logging companies to adopt more sustainable practices — and many of them have!
Siakor has urged the U.N. Security Council to maintain the sanctions until the corrupt logging companies that operated under the Taylor regime are removed, the forestry sector is reformed, and a workable forest management plan is in place.
Associated Oregon Loggers, represents over 1,000 family owned - contract logging companies and businesses associated with the forestry sector.
In addition to his role with Associated Oregon Loggers, Jaime is co-owner of Basco Logging Inc., a third ‑ generation logging company in Sutherlin, Oregon.
In some cases, governments grant forest concessions to logging companies contingent on their planting of replacement trees, but after the companies clearcut, they leave the land bare and move to new areas.
The new report, Logging in the shadows, identifies a largely hidden pattern of abuse across Cameroon, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Ghana and Liberia, in which permits designed to promote small businesses and meet local needs are being allocated in their hundreds to industrial logging companies.
Up to half of the land that could potentially be awarded to pulpwood and logging companies under the land swap scheme could be natural forest.
From our own experience as environmental lawyers, we have seen local residents warn provincial government officials that logging would impact their drinking water, only to be told that the government can do nothing — that as long as logging company foresters certify that the logging will meet provincial standards, the logging can go ahead.
A plaintiff whose pickup truck was struck by a logging truck owned by defendant logging company has stated a claim for punitive damages, based on allegations that defendant driver was a professional driver with specialized safety training directly related to...
Standing in front of this Coastal Logging Company truck is Mr. Leroy Johnson.
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