Deforestation on the Rise: Illegally Cut Timber Being Used to Produce Fancy...
Fancy furniture comes at a much higher price than any sale tag may lead you to believe. That's because illegal loggers are raiding ecologically important forests around the world for timber to be used
View ArticleBrazilian exchange launches app to track illegal timber trade
Brazil's environmental assets exchange BVRio on Tuesday launched an app that promises to help foreign traders and buyers of Brazilian timber make sure the product hasn't been illegally logged. The...
View ArticleOver 219,000 hectares of forestry lost every year in Mozambique
Land, Forestry and Rural Development Minister Celso Correia says Mozambique is losing more than 219,000 hectares of forest annually due to illegal logging, a reality that particularly affects the...
View ArticleTimber smuggling up in Nawalparasi
KAWASOTI: Smuggling of timber in the forests of Nawalpur in Nawalparasi district has gone massively in the recent days. Generally, smuggling of the timber takes place during winter as the smugglers
View ArticleRampant timber smuggling in Upper Dehing Forest Reserve causes concern
MARGHERITA, January 31: Upper Dehing Forest Reserve of Digboi Forest Division under Tinsukia has more or less depleted as precious trees are being allegedly chopped illegally by timber smugglers every
View ArticleLogs worth millions stranded in forests
A large number of trees of different national and community forests had fallen due to heavy storms in mid-May last year. Though District Forest Office has took stock of the trees, it has not done anything
View Article‘No evidence’ that EU's illegal timber policy is working
There is “no solid evidence” that an EU law has done anything to prevent the illegal timber trade or even that it has been implemented, according to a draft commission review seen by the Guardian. Nine
View ArticleMozambique decries illegal logging along Zimbabwe border
The provincial prosecutor’s office in the central Mozambican province of Manica, along the border with Zimbabwe, has expressed concern over the increased number of illegal loggers of timber, some of which
View ArticleMyanmar bans lucrative logging in bid to preserve forests
Myanmar has banned lucrative logging operations as the newly-elected government of democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi steps up a battle on deforestation, an environment official said on Thursday. Myanmar's
View ArticleUttarakhand forest fires: Natural or motivated?
A number of theories are circulating on what would have caused such gargantuan fires in Uttarakhand, reportedly the worst the state has seen in recent times. The reasons, as claimed by many on social
View ArticleIllicit timber trade thrives in Uttarakhand forests
Over 65 per cent of Uttarakhand’s total area of 34,651 sq.km is under forest cover. But surprisingly, the State has made no inventory of its trees and this has encouraged a flourishing and organised trade
View ArticleCameroon must partner EU to combat illegal timber logging
A forest campaigner with Greenpeace Africa, has stated that Cameroon must team up with the European Union if the country is keen on combating the incidence of illegal logging and timber export. ”If
View ArticleTimber smugglers could make Senegal's last forests disappear soon
Forests in Senegal's lush Casamance region risk disappearing within two years because of illegal timber smuggling, one of the West African country's foremost environmentalists said on Thursday. Casamance
View ArticleU.S. agents move against illegal timber imports from Amazon
U.S. agents searched the offices of a California-based wood importer this week as part of a broadening government crackdown on imports of illegally harvested timber, according to a previously unreported
View ArticleEnvironmental crimes increasing according to the UN
A new report by the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) and Interpol has highlighted the sophistication and growth of environmental crimes across the world. These crimes range from the illegal trade
View ArticleEnvironmental activist murders set record as 2015 became deadliest year
At least 185 environmental activists were killed last year, the highest annual death toll on record and close to a 60% increase on the previous year, according to a UK-based watchdog. Global Witness
View ArticleLogging rampant in Rautahat forests
Negligence on the part of District Forest Office to take action against the tree fellers has resulted in rampant deforestation in Rautahat forest areas of late. The DFO has more than 100 staffers
View ArticleWhy helping civil society investigate illegal timber is about much more than...
Sam Lawson is the founder of Earthsight, a London-based nonprofit whose mission is to promote the use of in-depth investigations to expose environmental and social crime, injustice and the links to global
View ArticleChinese Furniture Fashion Ravages West Africa’s Savannas
No one paid much attention to the gnarled, yellow-blossomed rosewood trees dotted around farmsteads in northern Ivory Coast until Chinese-backed buyers started offering money for the timber. Fast forward
View ArticleUsing Big Data to combat the illegal timber trade in Brazil
BVRio’s analysis found that more than 40 percent of the forest management operations in the Brazilian states of Pará and Mato Grosso between 2007 and 2015 were at medium to high risk of having involved
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