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Africa: Logging Permit Crisis Puts EU at Risk of Laundering Illegal Timber Imports
Global Witness, 30 April 2013
Systematic abuse of small, poorly regulated logging permits in Africa by companies, forest officials and politicians is undermining efforts to fight deforestation and keep illegal… Read more »
Permit Abuse in Africa's Forestry Industry
Logging permits designed to boost local participation and usage in the logging industry have been circumvented by large-scale operations due to inadequate monitoring, a report shows.
InFocus
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A new report from the United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) and Interpol says that illegal logging accounts for up to 30 percent of the global logging trade, and ... Read more »
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Following mounting criticism from local and international groups that multinational companies were taking over a significant portion of the country's virgin forests in dubious ... Read more »
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The Greenpeace International briefing 'Stolen future: Conflicts and logging in Congo's rainforests - the case of Danzer' exposes how the logging sector in the DRC fuels human ... Read more »
