Sentences with phrase «timber exports»

Illegal logging is worth 1.5 times the value of legal timber exports in Peru, whilst corruption among public officials is endemic in the Amazon region.

Now he is calling on the Cambodian government to revoke all land concessions and ban timber exports to Vietnam and China.

BC timber exports to the U.S. amount to C$ 3 billion, annually, while critics argue that the U.S. desperately needs Canadian timber for its housing needs.

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.

«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.

Despite a ban on timber exports and the government's repeated declaration that «large - scale» logging has been stopped, Vietnamese customs data compiled by watchdog Forest Trends show a significant increase in the import of Cambodian logs and sawn wood in 2017.

Researchers from the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) have been asked to do the work, which will not only examine environmental concerns but explore ways in which timber exports can be increased.

And the government of Sierra Leone has outlawed timber exports because of the ravaging impacts of Chinese logging.

Timber exports also play a role, with 80 percent of the Congo Basin's timber production being exported, mainly to China and the European Union.

We'd love to be proved wrong — if any government authority, in Europe or timber exporting countries, can point us to publicly accessible sources of this information, we'd be happy to announce this.»

Mr Barber Cho, Secretary of the Myanmar Forest Certification Committee (MFCC), a government - linked body that is currently developing a system to demonstrate that Myanmar's timber exports are legal, made the following comment:

In Cambodia, over 70 percent of the timber export volume consists of unreported logs.

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.