India's Wooden Furniture and Wooden Handicrafts: Risk of Trade in Illegally Harvested Wood
This report summarizes India’s domestic and imported timber flows into and out of the country and its manufacturing industry. This report is a first report by Forest Trends in a series focusing on India’s role in the global timber supply chain, with a particular focus on the extent to which India’s high demand for wood products from around the world may be driving illegal deforestation, 30 September 2020
India, Timber, illegal timber harvesting, illegal timber trade, india The Rosewood racket: Leaving blood trails, stripped forests and ecosystems
Nigeria has become the first on the list of China’s seven biggest suppliers of rosewood logs in Africa. Smart Chinese businessmen, according to -Akinsola B., a researcher, are exploiting a lax regulatory and enforcement environment, loopholes in existing laws, lack of government policy and direction, as well as corruption by government officials, to drive an illegal trade in the export of the country’s forest resources.Daily Trust, 30 August 2019
Nigeria, Timber, illegal timber trade, illegal timber harvesting, rosewood Caraga cops seize P500,000 worth of illegal logs
POLICE authorities seized P575,874 worth of illegal logs and arrested some 44 persons in a series of anti-illegal logging operations in Caraga region.Cagayan De Oro, 18 August 2019
, Timber, illegal timber harvesting, Illegal logging Tycoon Kong Kroeng in court for Kratie illegal logging
Kratie provincial court today are questioning well-known timber tycoon Kong Kroeng and his son-in-law over suspected illegal logging activities in Kratie province two days after they were arrested by the National Committee for Forest Crime Prevention.Khmer Times , 17 August 2019
, Timber, Illegal logging, illegal timber harvesting