Sentences with phrase «timber industry»

Outside agencies started a large number of timber industries, and after all the big trees have been cut and deforestation has taken place they closed them.

Unfortunately for the atmosphere and the forests themselves, working out an agreement with the tropical timber industry will be far easier than eliminating rural poverty.

When timber industry fell apart in the early part of this century, the woods stopped being logged.

It was considered to be important at the time that the few coastal settlements needed a proper road in order to support a growing timber industry and tourism.

Many countries have enacted log export ban policies to protect forests or to bolster their domestic timber industry.

Furthermore, it is obvious that a viable timber industry in the future requires a far more radical shake up than simply reforming the existing system», said Alley.

But what is often glossed over in this litany of domestic successes is the culpability of China's timber industry for illegal logging overseas.e

10 «The Usual Suspects: Liberia's weapons and mercenaries in Cote d'Ivoire and Sierra Leone», Global Witness, March 2003; «Logging Off: How the Liberian Timber Industry Fuels Liberia's Humanitarian Disaster and Threatens Sierra Leone», Global Witness, September 2002.

It's manufactured in Austria by timber industry experts focused on offering the highest possible visual aesthetic while maintaining Passive House levels of comfort and efficiency.

Columbia Forest Products» cabinets are made from wood certified by the Forest Stewardship Council, which guarantees that responsible timber industry practices, including the maintenance of the ecological functions of the forest and respect for indigenous peoples» rights, were followed.

Due to the UN Security Council's inaction on Liberia, the Liberian timber industry remains a primary source of funding for Liberia's war machine.

It's a forest consisting of pine, spruce, cedar, and eucalyptus trees introduced to Hawaii in hopes of creating a viable timber industry and reestablishing the watershed.

This comes from US timber industry influence.

Secondly the EU needs to address the role of China in the Burmese timber industry in its discussions at the highest level with Chinese officials.

Emissions caused by logging are measured on site and are not controversial among scientists, but, due to timber industry PR, the public is not aware of them.

The PCN and Grueso used Law 70 to successfully challenge destructive development projects including timber industry logging, African palm oil plantations, mechanized gold mining and industrial shrimping, which devastated local mangroves.

The U. S. timber industry charged that this support has given the Canadian lumber industry an unfair advantage over U. S. lumber.

You may have to sacrifice some goats to save the palilla.10 Or you may have to jeopardize a few jobs in the already declining timber industry of the Northwest (already devastated by our inane trading policy with Japan) to save an old - growth forest.

The Japanese timber industry produces some 4000 tonnes of T. dolabrata sawdust each year.

«The way things stand now, if something that loves sugar maple, like the Asian longhorn beetle, ever got here, we could lose our hardwood timber industry.»

The two men worried that the booming timber industry would, if left unchecked, level some of the West's most spectacular forests.

As chilling murders by children grip the country, anthropologist Hesketh Lock has his own mystery to solve: a bizarre scandal in the Taiwan timber industry.

Make this your base, take the trail to local wineries, pubs, the very interesting Local Timber Industry Museum and Art Gallery, visit local dams, even do some fishing or play a round of golf.

Chicago - based artist Sara Black and Aotearoa New Zealand artist Raewyn Martyn transform Hyde Park Art Center's Gallery 1 into an immersive built landscape constructed in response to the far - reaching timber industry that grew out of the south branch of the Chicago River.

The American timber industry has successfully penetrated most of our mainstream environmental organizations and NGO's through donations and relentless lobbying.

The United Nations Security Council has voted not to renew sanctions on the Liberian timber industry despite insufficient progress by the Government of Liberia in meeting the criteria set out in Resolution 1521 (2003).

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.

By cancelling the GAT contract the RGC as a whole would be sending a clear message to the donors and to the members of the Cambodia Timber Industry Association (CTIA) that it will not tolerate illegal activities by the concessionaires and that the reform process is still on track.»

Given that this audit is in response to a Security Council demand, Global Witness and the ITF concur with the Panel of Experts and call for the total transparency of all documents and findings of the Deloitte contract, and further call for a full, retrospective, and independently verifiable audit of registry and timber industry revenues by a fully qualified, unbiased and internationally reputable auditor.

«The adaptive management process shall incorporate best available science and information, include protocols and standards, regular monitoring, a scientific peer review process, and provide recommendations to the board on proposed changes to forest practices rules to meet timber industry viability and salmon recovery.»

The proposal by our old pals the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service could reopen the 1990s debate over timber production on federal lands; logging companies had argued that efforts to save the owl — declared a threatened species in 1990 — contributed to the Northwest timber industry's decline.

She's not arguing for cutting what's left outside the tropics, she's saying the climate change money could be diverted outside the tropics by timber industry deception.

Cross Laminated Timber is a potential game - changer for the Irish timber industry and forestry growers.

The material has been used in Europe for about two decades — and about eight years in Canada — but the push for more wood in U.S. construction stemmed from an oversupply of the product in neighboring Canada, as well as a desire to bring more jobs to rural areas of the Pacific Northwest, hurt by a dwindling timber industry, he adds.

These same leaders are also well aware that the political power of the fossil fuel and timber industries in the US exceeds that of any other country, except possibly Saudi Arabia and Kuwait.

Two industry giants, International Paper Co. and MeadWestvaco Corp., are planning to transform plantation forests of the southeastern United States by replacing native pine with genetically engineered eucalyptus, a rapidly growing Australian tree that in its conventional strains now dominates the tropical timber industry.

The EU countries now need to take rapid and decisive steps to address the endemic lack of accountability, transparency and sustainability of the Burmese timber industry.

But the controversy over the endangered spotted owl allowed the timber industry to create another narrative - that environmentalists cared about birds more than jobs, that they wouldn't be happy until the economy was devastated, and that all of the changes that harmed timber workers were due to environmental regulation - not the industry itself.

Having spent 50 + years in the timber industry I have been tracking this company for the last two years and consider them a good bet I don't hold shares but if the short sellers force them down below a dollar then I will swoop like a bald headed eagle

«I personally would not call it a political slush fund; I'd call it a timber industry slush fund.»

Yep, but then I worked in the timber industry for 25 yrs, and a jillion expectations too.