by EU FLEGT Facility, 19 December 2017 The Republic of Congo and the European Union (EU) have adopted a five-year plan for the implementation of their Voluntary Partnership Agreement (VPA) aimed at eliminating illegal logging. This Agreement is part of the EU initiative on Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade (FLEGT). Co-presidents of the JIC…
The impacts of illegal logging include environmental, economic and social aspects. Environmental impacts include the loss or degradation of forests, as illegal logging tends to be associated with poor forest management. This can result in the loss of habitats and biodiversity. For example, illegal logging is threatening the survival of some of the world’s most…
Khuon Narim / Khmer Times Share: Vietnam customs data shows vast timber exports to the country. Supplied Vietnam imported $179 million worth of timber from Cambodia in the first nine months of the year, according to customs data from Hanoi released by the NGO Forest Trends yesterday. The timber, which was mostly sawn wood and logs, was…
Jeffrey Barbee BLANTYRE, Malawi (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Last November, rangers in Malawi’s Lengwe National Park arrested 35 illegal loggers within the park boundaries as they felled timber with a half-million dollars worth of equipment brought in via an illegal road from neighboring Mozambique. Satellite images suggest about a million protected mopane trees had been…
Police release details of one of the biggest raids on suspected illegal timber operations ever undertaken in Latin America Nearly 200 people have been arrested and 2,000 truckloads of wood seized in one of the biggest raids ever on suspected illegal timber operations in Latin America. The raid, Interpol’s first international operation against large-scale illegal…