Sentences with phrase «many logging companies»

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 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.

Running from her past, Amber takes a job at a family logging company.

There was little economic activity — some trading in forest delicacies, some income from the trekkers, some bribes from the logging companies who had encroached almost as far as Murudi — but government subsidies filled the gap.

The methodology proposed in this study could help logging companies and local authorities predict economic and social effects from the utilization of energy wood.

The study showed that climate change affects technical accessibility of forests in the study area and consequently economic sustainability of the logging companies.

Shorter winters and uncertainty complicate management for logging companies, Rissman adds.

Apparently, logging companies in the congressman's district are having a hard time competing with their counterparts north of the border.

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).

The documentary Love & Bananas: An Elephant Story begins in northern Cambodia with David Casselman in a helicopter surveying and commenting on the appalling deforestation of seventy - five percent of the Cambodian jungle by logging companies.

What seems like a miracle is, however, threatened by her father - in - law's decision to allow the mountain to be clear - felled by a logging company.

As roads were limited to those built by individual logging companies, all transportation was by ship or float plane.

During the late 1970s a local logging company was looking to develop this critical habitat into a dry land sort which would bare great impact on this Northern Resident Killer Whale habitat.

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 logging

Part of the concession had previously been granted to a logging company, which has since abandoned the site.

It's a complicated mess, involving varied accounts involving shots fired by a military police officer who also died in the incident and a logging company security worker.

A few years ago, Moore was handed a fuzzy map that showed where a logging company planned to cut timber in her community.

With this tool, she was able to show the community that they did not want this logging company to move forward with the plan as it stood.

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.

The devastation of the forests and the utter cynicism of the logging companies» propaganda were, in an odd way, inspirational.

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.

«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.

«Logging companies have also provided training bases, housing facilities and paramilitary support to the Ivorian rebels.»

Her parents were tree - planters, hired by logging companies to repopulate the large swaths of land left naked by clear cutting forestry operations...

You also need to address demand for paper products or luxury furniture that is motivating the logging company.

JAKARTA — A program under which pulpwood and logging companies in Indonesia must preserve and restore any peat habitats that fall within their concessions could lead to greater deforestation, NGOs...

[1], [2] This unprecedented move follows a decade of rapacious logging by Chinese logging companies in Burma's northern forests.

Kouwenhoven, a Dutch national, was General Manager of the Oriental Timber Company (OTC), Liberia's biggest logging company during the regime of former president Charles Taylor.

PUPs were ruled illegal by the Liberian government in December 2012, whose investigation into their use reported widespread fraud and corruption by logging companies and Liberian officials.

But the region is still under concession to five logging companies and that is clearly inconsistent with the preservation of this extraordinary area.»

The problem is, the very trees that the logging companies take — the oldest, largest, tallest ones — are also 1) the most resistant to fire, and 2) the ones that provide a thick canopy, blocking sunlight and reducing the volume of highly - flammable shrubs, herbs, and young trees at ground level.

New research shows rainforests on Borneo have been ravaged by logging companies and palm oil plantations

On Craigslist I saw a logging company selling off pieces of land where they had already logged the big trees.

A computer illustration created by the wildlife activist group WWF - Indonesia using Google Earth provides a tour of Sumatran rain forest areas at risk of destruction by logging companies and palm oil producers.

So, the theory would go: alarmists would see their interests allied to the logging companies, since their doomsday scenarios would be most likely to come true if you chopped down all the forests.

It must make sure forest - dependant communities are able to negotiate a fair deal with logging companies and it must conduct a comprehensive study of the best use of Liberia's forests over the long term.

For example, reduced - impact logging (RIL) techniques would increase carbon storage over traditional logging, but have not been widely adopted by logging companies, even when they lead to cost savings (Holmes et al., 2002).

The only people that are working for foreign interests are the oil companies, logging companies and politicians.

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.

How, about a logging company that harvest rotting insect infested woodlands and utilizing wood per pellet mills or ethanol fuel?

When we think of timber from lush, tropical forests, it conjures up images of valuable old - growth trees pillaged by logging companies and illegal...

(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.

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.

But as a former director at the environmental group Greenpeace, I can tell you that activists don't occupy a logging company's offices, or lie down in front of a coal train, or march in the streets of New York for money.

· As stated in the report, OTC and MWPI, along with Inland Logging Company (ILC) and other logging companies maintain private armed militias that are used as parastatal fighting forces for the government, committing grave human rights abuses.

The timber industry remains a major conduit for illegal arms imports into Liberia, and many logging companies continue to assemble and arm human rights abusing militias.

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!

Unfortunately, only half the logging companies in Cameroon are licensed, and among these companies, violations such as felling trees smaller than the legal size and cutting outside concession boundaries are common.