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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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03/03/2010
EFI's EU FLEGT News February/March 2010
EFI have published the first issue of EFI’s EU FLEGT News. The newlsetter includes information ...
EFI (European Forest Institute)

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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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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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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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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

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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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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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30/01/2007 Opinion: Stabroek News Guyana
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Stabroek News (Guyana)

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28/11/2009 Uganda Business News: NFA impounds illegal timber
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UgPulse, Uganda

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15/11/2008 Uganda Government News: Uganda to deploy soldiers to protect forests
Uganda - The government has announced intensified efforts to promote forest conservation with the latest ...
Wavah Broadcasting Company (Uganda)

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04/05/2009 News: Unsustainable palm oil production threatening the Indonesian orangutan population
Unregulated palm oil production is causing widespread deforestation in Southeast Asia, dislocating natives ...
FoodBizDaily

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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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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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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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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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29/01/2008 Wal-Mart Buying Illegal Russian Wood to Make Products for US Market Report Alleges
USA - The environmental watchdog group the Environmental Investigation Agency released a report earlier ...
Sustainable is Good (USA)

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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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06/01/2009 Malaysia to sign VPA
Malaysia will have a Voluntary Partnership Agreement (VPA) within the next four months, according to ...
Timber Trades Journal (UK)

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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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17/10/2008 Commission unveils package to tackle illegal logging and deforestation
The European Commission today unveiled two important initiatives to protect forests globally. The package ...
European Commission

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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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30/05/2008 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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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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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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30/08/2008 The Week in Green: why forestry protection is doomed to failure
One of the great truisms of the fight against climate change is that we cannot hope to avoid a future ...
Business Green (UK)

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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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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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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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17/06/2008 Malaysian Indigenous People Face Arrest at Logging Blockade
Miri, Sarawak, Malaysia - A month-long blockade of logging roads by indigenous people in the state of ...
Environment News Service (USA)

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23/04/2007 Taib strikes back over corruption allegations
Malaysia - Sarawak Chief Minister to sue press and opposition over reports on his involvement in timber ...
Bruno Manser Fonds (Swizerland)

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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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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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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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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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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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02/10/2008 Russia might impose ban on timber exports
Speaker in Russias State Duma, Boris Gryzlov, this week said parliament was ready to elaborate and adopt ...
Barents Observer (Russia)

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08/06/2007 Malaysia, Indonesia launch PR campaign to defend palm oil
Malaysia and Indonesia have launched a major publicity campaign to counter accusations that their palm ...
Bridges Trade BioRes

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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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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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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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16/04/2008 Brazil: Illegal shipment of Amazonian timber seized
A shipment of Amazonian timber bound for Europe has been seized, the Brazilian Environmental Authority ...
BYM Marine Environment News (Gibraltar)

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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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21/12/2007 China Spurring Illegal Timber Trade in Tanzania
China's growing hunger for timber may wipe out much of Tanzania's commercially valuable forests ...
National Geographic (USA)

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19/09/2006 Illegal or legal logging?
The debate about industrial logging and its benefits for Papua New Guinea continues with a lot of talk ...
PNG Post-Courier (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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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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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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15/01/2010 Indigenous peoples groups say carbon markets violate rights and threaten cultural survival
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Huntington News, West Virginia, US

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10/11/2009 Plant experts unveil DNA barcode
Hundreds of experts from 50 nations are set to agree on a "DNA barcode" system that gives every ...
BBC News

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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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27/12/2009 Rainforest conservation: a year in review
2009 may prove to be an important turning point for tropical forests. ...
Mongabay.com

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02/03/2010 Say no to political fund-raising from logging
Transparency International-Malaysia (TI-M) recently urged the Malaysian government to reduce the strong ...
The CSR Digest

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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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APPROACHES

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News.tv, Philippines. < BACK TO TOP ... South Asian News Agency. < BACK TO TOP ... NEWS (18). SEARCH THIS SECTION. Enter your search term: ... ...

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APPROACHES SRI LANKA
UN News Centre. < BACK TO TOP ... Prism Webcast News. < BACK TO TOP ... NEWS (8) ; PRESENTATIONS (1). SEARCH THIS SECTION. Enter your search term: ... ...

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