Sentences with phrase «timber trade»

We've exposed illegal fishing and human rights violations at sea, illegal timber trading across the globe, and tracked how dirty energy money in politics affect the policies around climate change.

It's current settlements also have a significant history in the Logwood and timber trade of the 17th to 19th centuries.

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.

Illegal timber traders in the tropics are holding back information about the species of timber that they are cutting and exporting, ad so circumventing efforts to conserve certain species, according to a report on the illegal tropical timber trade published this week by TRAFFIC, a network of conservation organisations that monitors trade in wildlife.

Offering the serenity and refreshing escape of the countryside, Losby Gods Hotel dates back 300 years to the lucrative timber trade.

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.

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.

In addition, in early 2006, both the Burmese and the Chinese governments admitted publicly that a problem with illegal cross-border timber trade exists.

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

Global Witness is a leading campaigning organisation with over 15 years experience in exposing the corrupt exploitation of natural resources, including logging and international timber trade.

He focuses on forest production, timber trade flows, legal frameworks, and many other issues as they relate to the REDD + and FLEGT VPA initiatives.

Other sponsors include American Softwoods, Arnold Laver, Wood for Good, Forestry Commission, Timber Trade Federation (TTF) and Furniture Makers» Company.

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.

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.

Timber prices run hot and cold, but for right now, the timber trade is absolutely on.

It was once a terminal for chicle and the timber trade, however, agriculture is now the major economic base.

A high - school drop - out and self - made billionaire, Pinault started out in his family's timber trade.

With vast territory to cover across Peru, government authorities are working hard to fight the illegal timber trade that often goes on deep in the jungle.

However, in the last six months the two governments have had at least three high - level meetings on curbing the illegal timber trade: in November 2005, February 2006 and April 2006.

China has clamped down on illegal logging in northern Burma by closing its border to the timber trade and ordering Chinese workers to leave the country.

Global Witness is concerned by reports that where the Burmese authorities have taken action against the timber trade, this has sometimes involved violent attacks on Chinese migrant workers by the army.

Global Witness submitted evidence concerning DLH, whose global headquarters is based in Denmark, to the Danish Nature Agency, the authority responsible for enforcing the EU's Timber Regulation against the illegal timber trade.

«DLH has a horrific record of financing conflict through its timber trading during Liberia's bloody civil war.

To regain its certification FSC requires that DLH pays compensation to the rural communities affected by their recent illegal timber trading.

The environment is threatened by wildlife poaching, the climate crisis, and the ongoing illegal timber trade, and EIA feels an acute responsibility to protect the environment for both the humans and species that rely on a healthy planet.

Washington's diverse landscapes sustain the state's economically vital fishing industry, timber trade, and agriculture, as well as a vibrant tourism industry that contributes $ 17 billion to the state's economy.

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.

The timber trade in Asia has taken an enormous toll on indispensable natural resources and contributed to global climate change.

As highlighted by the recent Global Witness report «A Conflict of Interests: The uncertain future of Burma's forests», the timber trade in Burma is unregulated, highly destructive of the environment and intertwined with corruption, illegality, and armed conflict.

«Ty Sokhun's failure to make public his familial links to the timber trade is a massive conflict of interest and is in itself reason enough to dismiss him.»

Ty Sokhun is hopelessly compromised by his familial links to the timber trade.

Much of the timber trade is protected by military units that profit from deals with the loggers, and the stakes of fighting it can be deadly.

And indeed, the country's forests are taking a real hit with illegal logging, much of the illegal timber trade is thought to be controlled by criminal syndicates.

The study, released at a conference held at the European Parliament analyses the transparency commitments in agreements between Cameroon, Ghana and Liberia and European countries put in place to ensure the timber trade is legal.