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DATE	TITLE	AUTHOR
01/09/2005	FLEG Newsletter No.1 FLEG News is a periodic newsletter designed to provide updates and share information related to regional ...	World Bank FLEG Secretariat
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15/06/2006	America's Free Trade for Illegal Timber – how US trade pacts speed the destruction of the world's forests EIA report documenting the link between FTAs and increased trade in illegal timber from Honduras and ...	EIA
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10/04/2007	Carving up the Congo (Full Report) Report arguing that international logging companies are causing social chaos and wreaking environmenatl ...	Greenpeace (UK)
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22/11/2005	Failing the Forests: Europe's Illegal Timber Trade Based on trade data for six key timber-producing regions – the Amazon Basin, the Baltic States, ...	WWF
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01/01/2007	An assessment of tree species which warrant listing in CITES This report explores the potential of CITES (the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species ...	Milieudefensie/Friends of the Earth Netherlands (James Hewitt)
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01/05/2006	Demand-Side Options: Policies and measures for reducing imports of illegal timber and timber products to consumer countries Looks at the options available to governments of consumer countries to reduce their contribution to illegal ...	Chatham House (Duncan Brack and Jade Saunders)
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NEWS

DATE	TITLE	AUTHOR
21/07/2006	U.S. Illegal Timber Imports Threaten Progress of U.S.-Malaysia Free Trade Pact; Second Round of Negotiations Conclude Today Washington, USA - As the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) raises concerns over its likely impacts ...	US Newswire (USA)
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15/06/2006	America's free trade pacts driving illegal timber trade: destruction of Asian and Latin American forests (Press Release) Washington, USA - US free trade agreements are accelerating the destruction of tropical ...	EIA
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10/09/2009	News focus: new law empowers ministry to punish environmental offenders Jakarta - Indonesia is endowed with vast forest, mangrove, peat soil and coral areas as well as biological ...	Antara News, Indonesia
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30/01/2007	Opinion: Stabroek News Guyana ...	Stabroek News (Guyana)
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12/03/2007	News From USW: USW, Sierra Club Join Paper Trade Case to Support Fair Trade Seminal environmental action challenges subsidies from illegal logging. ...	Business Wire (USA)
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05/05/2008	http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2008/05/05/illegal-loggers-push-antigraft-police-chief-shuffle-walhi.html The sudden reshuffle of Riau Police Chief Sutjiptadi, known for his anti-illegal logging stance, raises ...	Jakarta Post (Indonesia)
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05/02/2009	Govt to rope in police for saving Kashmir forests Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, India - The government is all set to extend the role of State Police to ...	Rising Kashmir (India)
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15/02/2008	Cambodia Calls for Regime Change at Global Witness UK - Following Global Witness recommendation that new World Bank President Robert Zoellick take advantage ...	OneWorld.net (UK)
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15/02/2008	International Experts Convene to Discuss Illegal Logging An international forum has concluded that while some major initiatives are being developed to address ...	ForestNewsWire (Canada)
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06/05/2009	S'wak gov't defeated in landmark NCR ruling The Federal Court has upheld the concept of native customary rights (NCR) to land as including not only ...	Malaysiakini
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16/10/2007	Riau illegal logging: Torn between environment, business Indonesia - The administration and the House of Representatives remain at loggerheads over illegal logging ...	The Jakarta Post (Indonesia)
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20/10/2006	New WWF Monitoring Brief Details How Company Threatens Natural Forests and Wildlife In Sumatra (WWF Press Release) Jakarta, Indonesia - A new WWF monitoring report released today reveals that Asia ...	WWF (Indonesia)
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19/06/2009	SFI forest certification continues rapid growth Washington - The astounding growth of the independent Sustainable Forestry Initiative(R) (SFI(R)) program ...	PR Newswire
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29/05/2009	Interview - Forest-CO2 scheme will draw organised crime: Interpol Nusa Dua, Indonesia - Organised crime syndicates are eyeing the nascent forest carbon credit industry ...	Reuters
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23/10/2007	Timber kickbacks scandal: Stand-off in Sarawak ports Japanese ships are being made to wait at loading points off three ports in Sarawak reportedly as a retaliatory ...	Malaysiakini (Malaysia)
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30/05/2008	Timber Trade Federation meet Chinese Producers To Promote Market for Legal and Sustainable Timber Products Getting credible evidence on the origin of timber and timber products was a key message to Chinese plywood ...	UK Timber Trade Federation (UK)
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06/01/2009	Fifteen timber lorries impounded Uganda - A new group that is tracking illegal trade in forest products impounded 15 lorries loaded with ...	New Vision (Uganda)
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30/04/2009	Gems, timber and Jiziya: Pakistan's Taliban harness resources to fund Jihad The Taliban resurgence in Pakistan's lawless provinces and its unhindered march towards the heartland ...	The Jamestown Foundation
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17/12/2009	Forest dept rejoinder, our reply The Divisional Forest Officer Md Delwar Hossain of Sylhet Division contested a news item published in ...	The Daily Star, Bangladesh
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30/05/2006	China Blocks Timber Imports From Burma (Myanmar) China has clamped down on illegal logging in northern Burma by closing its border to the timber trade ...	Global Witness (UK)
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10/02/2009	Malaysia Hopes For VPA With EU Soon Putrajaya, Malaysia - Malaysia hopes to conclude a bilateral voluntary partnership agreement (VPA) with ...	Bernama (Malaysia)
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28/05/2007	What Taib Mahmud can't buy Malaysia - It is when you're near death that the vultures begin to circle above. Powerful politicians ...	Malaysiakini (Malaysia)
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02/01/2006	Poachers, loggers put Sumatran rhino on brink of extinction Widespread illegal logging is not only damaging the ecosystem in the South Bukit Barisan and Way Kambas ...	The Jakarta Post (Indonesia)
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21/01/2010	Journalist who criticized illegal logging activities in Mindanao is missing Iligan City, Philippines – A radio broadcaster who strongly criticized rampant illegal logging ...	The Mindanao Examiner, Philippines
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25/12/2006	The GFC and the Guyana Revenue Authority need to tackle the prima facie case of falsification of export records for logs Guyana - Opinion - "The GFC and the Guyana Revenue Authority need to tackle this prima facie case ...	Stabroek News (Guyana)
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26/07/2006	Burmese teak imports anger conservationists Thailand - The decision to allow the import of teak logs from Burma through Chiang Rai has brought cries ...	The Bangkok Post (Thailand)
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11/08/2009	10 countries with the highest deforestation rates in the world Hopefully it comes as no great surprise to you that deforestation is a major problem in many areas of ...	Tree Hugger
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08/01/2008	The Bali road map some practical implications for Guyana Letter - In your news article, 'Market-based reward mechanism for standing forests Guyana will ...	The Guyana Chronicle (Guyana)
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15/09/2007	Given the waivers granted to Asian timber companies in 2006, what investments did they make and what taxes did they pay? Letter to editor of the Stabroek News. ...	Stabroek News (Guyana)
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23/09/2009	Forest conservation: who has the right idea? The Thai government’s recent U-turn on its decision to remove monks in temples in environmentally-protected ...	Sideways News
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03/11/2007	Burmese Gems, Timber Find Other Markets as US Increases Sanctions While the US enforces additional economic sanctions against Burma on gems and timber trade, highly prized ...	The Irrawaddy News Magazine (Thailand)
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23/02/2008	Timber mafia still active in Kunduz Kunduz City, Afghanistan - Officials of Agriculture department in Kunduz province said illegal cutting ...	Afgha.com (Germany)
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06/06/2007	China, Myanmar to crack down cross-border lumbering Beijing, China - China would cooperate with Myanmar to prevent timber smuggling and other illegal activities ...	Zee News (India)
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07/11/2004	Japan, Malaysia end free-trade talks without agreement Japan and Malaysia ended three days of talks on a free-trade agreement (FTA) on Saturday still divided ...	The Independent (Bangladesh)
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26/06/2009	Illegal loggers use forestation to cut and sell timber Loggers told to cut foliage selectively for forestation projects have been illegally logging indiscriminately ...	Thanh Nien News, Vietnam
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15/08/2007	Arson attack follows anonymous threat against Cambodian journalist The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on the Cambodian government to launch an independent investigation ...	CPJ Press Freedom Online (USA)
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22/12/2007	China spurring illegal timber trade in Tanzania Washington, USA - Scientists have said that due to China's increasing demands for timber, illegal ...	Thaindian.com (Thailand)
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17/09/2007	Guyana: The forestry commission and the geology and mines commission should sign up to the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative Letter from the Stabroek News in Guyana. ...	Stabroek News (Guyana)
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02/07/2009	Illegal Chainsaw is inimical to Ghana's environment Stakeholders in the nation's development have been asked to embark on a vigorous campaign to halt ...	Ghana News Agency
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12/07/2006	PNG to host forest seminar PAPUA New Guinea will host an international forest seminar in Port Moresby in September, an avenue where ...	The National (Papua New Guinea)
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18/06/2006	Myanmar returns Chinese held for illegal logging Myanmar has repatriated 427 Chinese who had been arrested in the country for illegal logging and illegal ...	Reuters (UK)
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19/02/2008	The forestry commission should focus on the huge losses suffered from log exports Guyana - Letter to the Editor - It is just a year since 350 stakeholders at the public consultation on ...	Stabroek News (Guyana)
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15/01/2010	Indigenous peoples groups say carbon markets violate rights and threaten cultural survival ...	Huntington News, West Virginia, US
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14/03/2007	The issue of an exploratory permit to Roger Khan's company Aurelius was approved by the Board of Directors of the Forestry Commission Guyana - Letter to the editor of Stabroek News regarding application of existing forestry legislation ...	Stabroek News (Guyana)
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13/12/2007	US, China sign MoU on combating illegal wood trade Beijing, China - China and the US today agreed to work together in combating illegal logging and the ...	Zee News (India)
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21/04/2007	Taib plans to sue S'wak PKR leaders too Malaysia - Embattled Sarawak Chief Minister Abdul Taib Mahmud has threatened legal suit against two state ...	Malaysiakini (Malaysia)
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21/04/2007	Taib plans to sue S'wak PKR leaders too Malaysia - Embattled Sarawak Chief Minister Abdul Taib Mahmud has threatened legal suit against two state ...	Malaysiakini (Malaysia)
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08/05/2006	Chinese newspaper reports on the trade of illegally sourced wood products into China On May 8, 2006 the International Herald Leader, directly under China's state Xinhua News Agency, ...	Xinhua News Agency (China)
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22/07/2009	Chief Musarurwa castigates deforestation With the world worried about the devastating effects of global warming, Chief Musarurwa of Chivhu Communal ...	ZBC News, Zimbabwe
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17/01/2007	Illegal logging in Guyana is worse than admitted by the Guyana Forestry Commission Letter to the editor of the Stabroek News, Guyana. ...	Stabroek News (Guyana)
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01/09/2008	Brazil: Deforestation rises sharply as farmers push into Amazon Concerns over the destruction of the Brazilian rainforest resurfaced at the weekend after it emerged ...	Guardian (UK)
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02/07/2009	Illegal Chainsaw is inimical to Ghana's environment Stakeholders in the nation's development have been asked to embark on a vigorous campaign to halt ...	Ghana News Agency
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13/01/2008	Forest mafia kills cop - Swift retaliation to raids Nagaon, India - Forest smugglers who lost 1,000 cubic feet of ill-gotten timber during police raids in ...	The Telegraph (India)
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17/03/2009	Crisis hits wood industry, forests still vulnerable Rome - The global financial crisis and the collapse of the housing sector are a big blow for wood industries, ...	Reuters, featured on Planet Ark
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APPROACHES

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