Sentences with phrase «of illegal timber»

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.

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

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.

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.

REDD + has stimulated almost every dimension of forest activity: real - time satellite tracking of global forest loss; local communities using handheld data devices; long - simmering disputes over forest ownership and use; methods for benefit sharing; nested accounting to meld project and national approaches; the role of women in forest stewardship; the place for certification and reduced impact logging; enticements of billions from donors; open discussion of illegal timber trade and corruption; public platforms for indigenous groups to command large audiences, and many more... the exponential interest in REDD + has been tremendous.

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.

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

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.

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

Not exact matches

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

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.

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.

With an ongoing crises from illegal exploitation of precious timber, land tortoises, and now sea turtles, Madagascar is developing an unfortunate reputation as an illegal trafficking hotspot, WCS warns.

Most official timber concessions are already depleted, exposing the network of nature reserves to illegal logging, says tropical ecologist Lisa Curran of Yale University.

He thinks one of the ways in which the flow of illegal logs may still be stemmed is a system of marking sustainably harvested timber all the way from the stand to the end - consumer.

The first aerial assessment of the impact of South Sudan's current civil war on the country's wildlife and other natural resources shows that significant wildlife populations have so far survived, but poaching and commercial wildlife trafficking are increasing, as well as illegal mining, timber harvesting and charcoal production, the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) said in a report issued today.

A veteran defender of the forests claims they could in fact be buying timber cut from rare tiger habitat or regions where there is illegal logging, or removed using methods that cause epidemics of malaria.

The report also documents widespread smuggling of timber and illegal logging, particularly of small trees that are nominally protected, throughout Southeast Asia.

Los Katios National Park was placed on the Danger List at the request of Colombia so as to help mobilize international support for the preservation of the property which is threatened by, notably, deforestation in areas inside and around the property due to the illegal extraction of timber.

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.

Kajir has served as chief executive officer of the Environmental Law Centre in Port Moresby and was the lead attorney in a Supreme Court case aimed at stopping foreign timber companies» large - scale, illegal deforestation practices, often accompanied by threats of harm to local landholders who dare to challenge them.

«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.

The acceptance of responsibility by the iconic US company under a «criminal enforcement agreement» marks the end of the first investigation under the groundbreaking Lacey Act of 2008, which makes importing or dealing in illegal overseas timber a criminal offence.

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.

Cambodian activist Leng Ouch spent years working undercover, posing as a laborer at a timber company while collecting GPS and photographic evidence of illegal logging.

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.

WASHINGTON, DC (17 February 2015)-- More than 30 percent of wood used by Indonesia's industrial forest sector1 stems from the unreported clear - cutting of natural forests and other illegal sources instead of legal tree plantations and well - managed logging concessions, 2 according to a new study analyzing Indonesian Ministry of Forestry and timber industry data to assess the sustainability of the country's booming pulp and paper industry.

While the Indonesian government does not report the source of the illegal wood, its own data demonstrates the growing importance of «conversion timber.»

«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.»

So far no - one has ever been prosecuted, despite billions of euros of illegal or risky timber sold in Europe every year.

The team including members from the DFW and FCMU, Global Witness and CI uncovered clear evidence of illegal cutting and transportation of timber by GAT.

Estimated production of legal and illegal timber, 2013 (Sources: Chatham House estimates of illegality, ITTO, UN Comtrade and national agencies)

Cracking down on the illegal timber trade and illegal conversion of forests for large - scale agribusiness helps to mitigate climate change by reducing CO2 emissions from land use change.

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

In November, Australia passed the Illegal Logging Prohibition Bill, joining the U.S. in outlawing the importation of illegal logged timber from Illegal Logging Prohibition Bill, joining the U.S. in outlawing the importation of illegal logged timber from illegal logged timber from abroad.

(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.

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

If importing countries insist that timber and timber products are certified under internationally recognized environmental and social standards like those of the Forest Stewardship Council, illegal logging becomes more difficult.

«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.

Illegal logging and global forest crime has an estimated worth of $ 30 to $ 100 billion U.S. dollars annually, comprising 10 to 30 percent of the total global timber trade.

Increasingly, this work is highlighting illegal land use / conversion, the role of conversion timber in the global sourcing of wood fiber, and agricultural supply chains from legal or zero - deforestation zones.

In 2000, the United States alone imported over $ 450 million worth of timber from Indonesia, which given Indonesia's illegal logging rate could represent $ 330 million worth of timber from illegal sources.

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.

EIA Investigators found clear cases of illegal logging, linked to the Austrian Timber company Holzindustrie Schweighofer, in Romania's Rodna Mountains National Park

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.

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

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.

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

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

In early 1995, Global Witness carried out its first investigations in Cambodia and Thailand, exposing how the illegal timber trade across the border was bankrolling the war effort of the genocidal Khmer Rouge.